Aysir

There's two arguments going on here and one of them has nothing to do with the game. Neither of them is answering or contributing to the OP at all. Racial and Gender stat modifiers is a different issue to character reactions changing based on those things.

I just remembered that Obsidian kind of handled this before with the Legion in Vegas. Only you weren't really barred from anything, just talked down at constantly.

Again with the strength issue ?

I really liked the initial points that the TC raised, but since then this tread seems to have been heavily derailed by 'man is stronger than woman' talk. Taking it back to a game context it's always interesting to see games that do make a difference and also those that don't. I know most people may not be familiar with game on all platforms, but Persona 3 Portable added the choice of a female protagonist and added a lot of changes based on that decision. As a female MC you get different choices from social links (friends), you also often get treated differently and one of the male squad mates develops a problem with having a girl in charge. I think just having a few differences here and there is enough. Not as few as Mass Effect or Dragon Age - where only your hetero-romance options are the only difference.