The dresses were for women only, and the baggy clothes for men. Until this month, all of this would have been impossible. Lex’s housemate Sammy Ginsburg (named in honour of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, natch) was equally gender-diverse, sporting a neat goatee alongside their female frame donning a waistcoat, loafers and jeans. Clothing, as in real life, is just clothing. You can wear a bra even if you don’t have boobs. You can mix a dress with boy shoes, or wear camo and high heels. It’s important to stress that while the game asks you to pick a gendered clothing preference, this isn’t actually hard-wired: gender-specific clothing has simply been abolished. I decided to make Lex as gender-nonconforming as possible, and after trying on a few outfits, settled on a red dress for daywear.
Creating my first character, Lex Lexington, I was presented not with just a binary choice between male and female, but with a custom list of options for various mutually-exclusive gender identifiers.ĭo I want Lex to stand up to pee? Do I want them to be able to get pregnant? Their sex is male, but what’s their clothing preference… and do they have the body frame to match? What does their voice sound like?Īll of these settings were adjustable, and there’s any number of different combinations.