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Cyberpunk 2077 character creator drops male and female options in favor of 'body type'

"You don’t choose your gender anymore. You don’t choose, ‘I want to be a female or male character’ you now choose a body type. Because we want you to feel free to create any character you want," Jonkers explained.

"So you choose your body type and we have two voices, one that’s male sounding, one is female sounding. You can mix and match. You can just connect them any way you want. And then we have a lot of extra skin tones and tattoos and hairstyles. So we really want to give people the freedom to make their own character and play the way they want to play."

Jonkers said that the CD Projekt team is "very international and very diverse," and that it's sought "a lot of feedback" on challenging issues like trans representation. "We just wanna know what we can improve on because we want to make a really good game and we really wanna make a game that everybody is comfortable playing," they said. "But at the same time we’ll tackle difficult issues. It is a cyberpunk world after all."