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Those are all natural things that can happen in a clan. I understand those elements being randomized, but not their genders. Gender is a personable thing, that each person has a unique take on, depending on who who are. There's some that believe there's only two, while others believe there's multiple. Sex doesn't equal gender, so why are the cats referred to as male and female instead of tom and she-cat like in the books? Why are male and female the gender identities if they aren't genders? If the game has genders, why can't you set the pronouns of your cats?

Why does gender even matter to cats anyway? It's nice that gender diverse people can headcanon their original cat characters as gender diverse, but why would a cat want to be nonbinary or a trans male/female if the issues with gender and gender identity stems from human socialization and stereotypes of male and female people of the man and woman gender?

I agree with you. I understand the game has a lot of trans developers and they're putting that in the game, but if the button to specify a cat's gender manually is already there, why is the randomized chance for cats to choose their gender by themselves there too? The game is already very gender neutral with each cat being referred to as they. Some of us already have stories for our characters and what they prefer. Even if no cat is really straight or bisexual or gay, people have headcanons for their own cats and I don't see why the game should randomize their cats' gender and may have to change that. You can reverse the that action, but why is it there in the first place? You can manually do it if it's something you desire with your cats.

Kinda rubs me the wrong way how the game randomizes and controls that aspect when it should be left up to the person.

I wish there was a button in settings to disable changing genders in the events tab. There's already a button in each cat's personal tab to do that and I already have headcanons for my cats' gender.