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Heya,

Unfortunately, there are no trans or femboy characters in the game. I've done a post that I'll link here as well as this post on why the letters of "straight" are in red here. Both posts are sorta related to your question. But to quickly summarize, I was mostly focusing and using characters with things that I needed to personally work through or things that, in my particular cultural area, were things that were difficult for me to accept about sexuality. I'm very straight acting and I'm ok with that. I wanted to depict a world in which that could still exist because it's something I'm very comfortable with but without it being assumed it was toxic masculinity. In this vein, femboy characters were sorta avoided because it didn't fit the particular narrative that I was personally trying to work through as well as me feeling that since I'm uber straight acting, that I wouldn't be able to write a femboy character with any type of justice. I've never written anything before so I tried to stick with what was familiar to me personally. Which leads to the trans character question which sorta has the same answer. It's not something that I personally had any experience with. This game focuses A LOT on the mind of a very straight acting gay character. There's a lot of psych and a lot of internal processing in the narrative and I simply just wasn't able to do that with a trans character because it's not something that I've experienced. I'm sure there's plenty of trans authors/writers/coders/artists-- just creators in general-- that could do that role with a lot more justice and introspection that I ever could have so I'd rather they did that and I'll gladly shine a spotlight in their direction. I'll stick to my bro dramas for now until I figure out how to objectively write better. Hopefully, that made sense, if not, then hit me up or check out those posts for more depth on what I was personally trying to accomplish with this project.