LogFAQs > #876652531

From what I read, the plan is to make it so they don't let you know they're trans until they've gotten to know you instead of just telling you early on. Haven't seen the scene myself and don't feel like looking it up right now.

Unless I really missed something (and I take a pretty completionist attitude towards these games), they NEVER get to know you. They're a random throwaway NPC that has about 20 seconds worth of dialogue (and even that is optional). Someone rushing through the game and not going out of their way to talk to everyone they can see would most likely never talk to her at all. They aren't even on your ship, they're in the med-bay of your starting ship that stays parked at the nexus all game. It's an area you only return to maybe 2-3 times throughout the entire course of the game (and never to see/talk to her specifically). She has less relevance to the overall plot than any named character I can think of in the series.

My conspiracy theory suspicion here is that the real "offense" is that Bioware chose to make its token transgender character insufficiently important. Given that it's impossible to subtly tell someone you're transgender in twenty seconds, the only "fix" is to make them a much bigger character with three minutes worth of dialogue instead.
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