Non-Binary farmer

[sweetenerfarm]

As a Non binary person myself, i wish so badly for a third gender option upon starting each save, along with gender neutral dialogue, and perhaps a choice between adopting or giving birth to your baby later in the game. I know there's probably a mod for this on PC, but I play on Switch so I can only play vanilla. I feel that everybody would feel more included with this option. Thank you.

 

[BeenASon]

Stardew does pretty well with not using any gendered pronouns at all tbh so I don't really see a need but more choices the better.

 

[sweetenerfarm]

Stardew does pretty well with not using any gendered pronouns at all tbh so I don't really see a need but more choices the better.

To use Dolphin Is Not A Fish's point from the Stardew discord server about this, "There's definitely quite a number of explicit reference to the farmer's gender, even beyond just pronouns. Alex saying the female farmer throws well "for a girl". Clint getting flustered with the female farmer and saying that her voice "sounds nice". George getting bothered if Alex is dating the male farmer, etc." I agree there is not much pronoun uses, but there is much gendered language. I recall being called "Young man" "Sir" "Farmer boy" and being called "Handsome" by my spouse. These terms are mostly okay for me as a trans masculine individual, but it is definitively NOT inclusive.

 

[sweetenerfarm]

I'm also aware of the translations complexities, but i'm sure it can be done! simply talking to non-binary individuals from different cultures how they work around the gendered language, i'm sure will work.

 

[BeenASon]

I'm also aware of the translations complexities, but i'm sure it can be done! simply talking to non-binary individuals from different cultures how they work around the gendered language, i'm sure will work.

Uh it's pretty time consuming to replace them all in every translation in the first place tho.

 

[FilthyGorilla]

To use Dolphin Is Not A Fish's point from the Stardew discord server about this, "There's definitely quite a number of explicit reference to the farmer's gender, even beyond just pronouns. Alex saying the female farmer throws well "for a girl". Clint getting flustered with the female farmer and saying that her voice "sounds nice". George getting bothered if Alex is dating the male farmer, etc." I agree there is not much pronoun uses, but there is much gendered language. I recall being called "Young man" "Sir" "Farmer boy" and being called "Handsome" by my spouse. These terms are mostly okay for me as a trans masculine individual, but it is definitively NOT inclusive.

I agree for the change, while a sizable list you provided, it's totally not an unreasonable number of changes that need to be made.

I understand the argument about it needing some effort for translators, but its not a whole lot of effort, especially when any minor changes to dialogue or items being added already necessitate that.

 

[BeenASon]

I agree for the change, while a sizable list you provided, it's totally not an unreasonable number of changes that need to be made.

I understand the argument about it needing some effort for translators, but its not a whole lot of effort, especially when any minor changes to dialogue or items being added already necessitate that.

It could be added as a feature in 1.7 if there doing more translation fixes anyways.