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Dragon Age: Veilguard is a very recent one that's, imo, kind of a mixed bag on it.
One of your party members, Taash, is enby and their personal story revolves mostly around that and the player character, Rook, can also be trans and being trans gives you unique dialogue options in certain situations.
Trans people were part of the writing and development team and it really shows. One thing that struck me in particular is that your Rook is allowed to feel different ways about their own transness.
That being said there are some definite issues as well. A lot of the conversations, to me, do kind of feel like Baby's First Gender Convo, and some of the dialogue mechanics do feel limiting if your Rook is trans. One thing that really bothered me is that in one conversation there are unique dialogue options for being trans and for being a woman, but they're totally separate. The game allows you to Be Trans or to Be a Woman, but it is mechanically enforced that you are not allowed to be A Trans Woman in that circumstance.
...idk, those are like, some words that are mostly just sort of disorganized thoughts I had I guess
Hopefully there's something there.
Wait, the dialog thing is really weird. Did no one see what that implies?