after thinking on it a little more, i'm adding this for a bit of clarification. the reason i'm not personally affected by the current phrasing is because i'm picking what's closest to how i want people to perceive me. if i were to choose what's physically closest to me instead, i would probably be picking "neutral." however, when i thought about what i would do if i were picking the avatar that most represents me physically, but i had a larger chest, it made me pretty uncomfortable to imagine myself having to pick the "female" avatar instead. while my experience with gender is very complex, i can almost for sure say that i'm (mostly) uncomfortable with feminine terms being used to refer to me. okay that was long so basically: if i was under different circumstances, i would definitely be uncomfortable with the current wording my answer is still support!

My personal feelings (I know they are not needed and maybe not wanted) as a Straight CIS women I have ALWAYS supported people wanting to be comfortable in their own skin. Regardless of how you identify or look seeing customization options that can represent you make it more inclusive for everyone. With that being said, I think we need to be careful how this post is directed in the future.

I'll start with my background. I am the most "normal" or (what is deemed normal by the society) girl you have ever seen. Literally. I support unique or pride people but me myself? I am the most "normal" girl that probably exists. Well, something close to that. I do have eccentric tastes but that's out of topic. Hey! This has gotta be here. There are lot of Pride, Trans, etc on here. I just want to say I stand at the most average viewpoint ever.

Support. For a number of reasons. Reason Number One: To break typical stereotypes. Okay yeah I know that sounds serious but really, it just means that hey, we don't say "girl" or "boy" anymore on website like avatar generators or asking what you want to be referenced to, instead we use "pronouns". I was thinking PFQ could help by simply saying "body type" :D Number Two: Why the heck not? Okay yeah that also sounds really dumb, but really, I don't see a reason why not. Let's take a look at two different standpoints: People who an issue with this(let's just say issue for now): Change it! People who don't have an issue witht this: Huh? Oh cool. Like, nobody who doesn't care if their body type is referenced that way is going to be affected by this. Well, I imagine most people. Probably. But point being, people who don't care about won't be affected. Sure, they might be confused for a little while, but isn't that how it works every time Niet decides to change something major on here? Third point: age group Alright. I don't know if this applies to everybody. But when I was younger and didn't understand how the world worked, I pretty much had two thoughts: Everybody was either a boy or a girl. I've never met someone different until I was in middle school anyway. That is NOT how I think now and I know things are different but we're talking Kindergarden and first grade here, forgive me. So imagine an eight-year old walks on here and signs up for the game. Let's imagine this eight-year old is a boy. The boy goes "I'm a boy, therefore let's pick the boy avatar!" Isn't that how eight-year olds generally think, right? So therefore he does not see a "gender" option only a "body-type" option. Now, does the boy care? Of course not! There are whole images on here that accompany. He'll probably just pick whatever his definition of "boy" is! And besides, this might end positive, letting the eight-year old boy know that everything isn't seperated into just boy and girl. There's stuff "in-between" too. This could break the typical stereotypes too! And if don't think one website can change a lot, it can. There's almost 500+ users online every day, and how many of these may be children? Besides, if one website starts doing these things, it might trigger a chain! So it's mostly a positive experience for every one!

I have changed the word "Gender" to "Body type". But I'm not sure I'm comfortable with "erasing" the identity of every cis or trans person just to try and appeal to the nonbinary in particular.