Aurellia wrote...
Siansonea II wrote...
I see where you're coming from, but the Lazarus Project wasn't something Shepard undertook, it was something that was undertaken by others on Shepard's behalf. And if Shepard was transgendered, I imagine it was all taken care of when s/he was a child/teen, so we are introduced to post-transition Shepard in ME1. That's how I see it anyway. I can't imagine anyone as self-possessed as Shepard would have discovered their transgender nature in their late 20s, or be afraid to address beforehand. Don't forget, this is the 2180s. Transgender in that time period should be equivalent to any other medical condition for the most part. You identify it, you address it. Making a big to-do about it almost seems odd to me. I would be thinking "Wow, people in the next century are STILL wierded out by this?" 
As someone who is close to this issue myself. While, I do agree that most gender dysphoria cases would likely get treated at an early age.
Some people figure this stuff out early. For various reasons gender dysphoria (transsexualism) may go undiagnosed for a period in life. Some people just float very close to the center for a long time.
In a future I would expect there to be more opportunities for gender fluidity. Which leads me to this. I'm sure you know but for the sake of others, not all transgender people are people with gender dysphoria or even gender identity disorder. Some simply choose to live in the middle or otherwise wish to defy their normative gender role/presentation for whatever reasons.
Giving Shepard a choice to change genders would just make for an interesting vehicle to explore how that universe views gender variance.
I understand what you're saying, certainly. But the instance of Shepard as a transsexual is a advanced form of transgender expression. Certainly there is a spectrum of transgender expression, and it encompasses many people without GID or dysphoria, they simple are drawn to a less rigid expression of gender in themselves. But those people aren't going to be changing their sex, and in any case I imagine that relatively few people who go to the extent of changing their sex would be floating near the center, as you say, or not for very long.
And Shepard changing his/her gender is problematic from another standpoint: Transsexual Shepard doesn't get a whole new skeleton, they still have the build they were born with if they transition as late as 2185. So we would need a feminized MaleShep model and a masculinized FemShep model, we wouldn't be able to just swap from MaleShep to FemShep. And again, the Lazarus Project isn't the place to do it anyway, as it was undertaken without Shepard's knowledge or consent, and there's no way for anyone at Cerberus to know whether or not Shepard would want such a procedure to take place.
But this is all pretty far off-topic, it doesn't really have anything to do with romance, as evidenced by the lack of any mention of characters other than Shepard in the discussion. I do find the subject interesting though, so if you'd like to continue the discussion in PM I'd be game.
Modifié par Siansonea II, 16 juin 2011 - 08:05 .
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I have the same idea about Tali, though I know others prefer her as a s/s LI candidate. But my Shepards are more conventional, they tend toward human LIs. My Paragon ManShep and FemShep are the most adventurous, they both went for Liara. The other four went for humans, except for my lonesome gay Sentinel, of course.
