Hogwarts Legacy Video Game Will Allow for Transgender Characters

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Harry Potter Video Game Will Allow Transgender Characters

The next Harry Potter video game will allow players to customize their character’s voice, body type and gender placement for the school dormitories, taking a stride toward inclusivity after several recent controversies stemming from comments by series creator J.K. Rowling that were seen as...

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The next Harry Potter video game will allow players to customize their character's voice, body type and gender placement for the school dormitories, taking a stride toward inclusivity after several recent controversies stemming from comments by series creator J.K. Rowling that were seen as transphobic.

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Although this level of customization has grown more common in video games and is no longer unusual, it's noteworthy for Hogwarts Legacy. Last summer Rowling made several comments that were widely viewed as demeaning toward transgender people and denounced by many, including Harry Potter film stars Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson. The comments also rattled some people working on the game, Bloomberg reported. As a result, some members of the Hogwarts Legacy development team have fought to make the game as inclusive as possible, pushing for the character customization and even for a transgender character to be added. There was resistance from management at first, the people familiar with the project said, but currently the character customization is included in the game. A Warner Bros. spokesperson declined to comment.

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Close if old. I did a keywords search for: "Hogwarts".

 

[est1992]

Good on the devs for pushing for this, but isn't this game still banned?

 

[Eggiem]

[Jason Schreier] Harry Potter Video Game Will Allow for Transgender Characters News

We are temporarily locking this thread, and discussing with the LGBT members of the staff, if this topic is allowed or not per our recent stance on Hogwarts Legacy- related threads. We will update on this as soon as possible.

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[The Bear]

Please reference this staff post:

Hogwarts Legacy senior producer Troy Leavitt, a game dev who used to make anti-feminist and pro gamer-gate videos (staff post added)(Up: Resigns)

I still can't believe that anybody would still toe the line that GG ever had a damn thing to do with ethics in games journalism. It was a harassment campaign from the start. You'd think that "Hoeg Law" would have done even a modicum of research but it's obvious he didn't.

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