Cyberpunk 2077 is a game in which the only way they could imagine the characters being trans is if they were

a) showing off their genitals
b) hypersexualized
c) conceived of as a "mix" of male and female

all of which are transphobic tropes that direct hate towards trans women https://twitter.com/YugoroForge/status/1316368027315843073
very few, if any, trans women walk around with their dicks like this, because why would we? who the fuck wants to walk around with a boner all the time? moreover, what transwoman is capable of keeping a boner more than half a second lol
many many trans women tuck, and the ones who don't, do not walk around with erections. at best they just walk around with their junk like anyone else with a dick does

but usually we tuck, because women with dicks get attacked
can you imagine the lady being depicted going to the bathroom in a public restroom in 2020? she'd get the shit beat out of her and people would call her a sexual predator
if @YugoroForge and Cyberpunk 2077 really wanted to depicted trans women accurately, they can just remove the visible dick

there, now you look like a typical trans women
that to me is the most frustrating part about this -- that the game could not conceive of any way of putting trans people into this game without making our genitals visible in hilariously atypical ways

like, even the justifications in-world are ridiculously bogus
there's this whole narrative around like .. hypersexual corporate yadda yadda

and like ok sure but why did this only happen the moment you wanted a trans woman in the game? why didn't this start with a bunch of cis guys going around with their dicks out first
maybe you ADDED those simultaneously but it was only simultaneous -- it was only once you decided to have a trans girl that you thought "oh yeah we should make people show their dicks"
and moreover, plenty of cis guys are going around __without__ their dicks out, but where are the canonical trans girls without their dicks out???

where are the trans guys with unbound breasts as just a normal accepted thing?
i have gone to science fairs in the bay area and met bearded, large breasted trans men with their children, who they gave birth to

you want trans visibility that is incredibly transgressive against gender norms? there you go -- visibly trans in normal contexts
there are SO MANY WAYS that you can subvert gender expectations of the future, but the only way that Cyberpunk 2077 was able to do it was by reinforcing and playing on the transphobic garbage of the 2010s
hell, even JOHNNY MNEMONIC in 1995 did this better

one of the two assassin sisters/girlfriends who worked for Ratsy was a trans woman. no one knew which one

throwaway fact, with no fetishization, just a true thing in the world that no one blinked at
technically johnny mnemonic was written this way 10 years earlier, actually, but
and like, this is NOT to say that you can't have trans girls in your game getting their dicks out

you absolutely can! lots of games do! it's fine!

it's all about the context of it tho
do you want to depict a depressing regressive future world? well, you could i suppose portray a regression to the culture of the 1970s and 1980s, where many trans women, esp. trans women of color, were pushed out of society so far that a major fraction had to be sex workers
because prostitution was one of the only places that trans women could make money. and then you could depict the whole range of danger and precarity in that situation due to transphobia, violence, etc. aimed at trans women, institutional disregard for the rapes and beatings, etc
you can even put a whole ~cyber~ spin on it with like.. a trans woman who gets attacked by a transphobic shitnozzle, who cuts her dick off, but because she's a prostitute who's being trafficked, she's forced to get a prosthetic dick, rather than gender affirming cyber pussy
or if you don't want a future that is obnoxiously transphobic then you depict one in which whatever sexuality you show of women includes trans women in an unremarkable way
i mean, @DeusEx: Human Revolution had a strip club, and if you're gonna go for a more "edgy" game, and thus show actual nudity etc like CP2077 seems to be aiming for, then you could just have trans women be depicted as strippers along side cis women with no commentary
no commentary as in __no distinction except for their genitals__

and the way you do it right? some of those trans women have dicks, some have scars from bottom surgery
make the world one in which people are just like "yeah, this is a strip club with women strippers, and some of them are trans women"

like, depict a world where no one conceives of trans women as anything but women
have a strip club for men who like women, and another one for women who like women

and then do one for men who like men and women who like men, where the guys dancing include trans men, some with vaginas, some with phalloplasty
if you're going to depict trans bodies in a sexual way and you want to claim that it's "normal" then just depict it as normal and unremarkable

but that's not what cyberpunk 2077 does. it makes it EXTREMELY remarkable and EXTREMELY abnormal, even within the game
now, you want to get even more transgressive with your gender and strip clubs?

don't depict there as being a significant separation in gender depictions. that is to say, make your sexualized characters have all sorts of body types, muscly hairy men, lithe little femmes
muscly butch girls, tiny twinks. make any and all of them trans at random times

literally write an algorithmic genital randomizer maybe. randomly generate big macho muscle men with boobs and vaginas, just b/c you can
go a step further, show characters with clearly non-binary bodies

hairy men with dicks and boobs

feminine folx with vaginas and no boobs that were visibly removed b/c you can see the scars
why stop there? this is the ~cyber future~, why not have people with exotic and interesting genitalia?

i know LOTS of folx would absolutely love to explore having strange new bodily forms. one friend once joked, "why not 6 clitorises?"

and you know, why not??? ~cyber~
we've got people wearing Bad Dragon strap ons, you think the that future isn't going to be filled with cybernetic furries with actual dragon dicks and starfish pussies? c'mon.

you can do so much better than "lol she has a glowing erection SO EDGY"
this is a game where plenty of characters have visible secondary sexual characteristics like breasts and their own "trans representation" is a girl with her dick out, and not, say, a trans masc person with visible but normally-clothed boobs
you're CLEARLY depicting characters as having breasts, under shirts and jackets

but they're ALL conventionally attractive women, mostly cis women

and when it comes time to "mix it up" with gender? "lol chick with dick"

not guy with tits

okay.
not guy with tits in the exact same ways that you have women with tits -- in a shirt, under a jacket

not even that. not even the NORMAL kind of guy-with-tits you might find in the ACTUAL 2077 future

nah, just dickgirl with permanent hardon
i mean if they depicted the 2077 future anything like i described, they would loose half their aggro Gamer Man fanbase so thats really why they'd never do it, not just their stunning lack of imagination, but
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