Personally I like the option to choose gender, because I wanted to play as it coming, but the second changing roles (the male resurrected and the female released from the prison). It is only a preference, not a condition. Also this game has a toolset, so there will be tons of mods to customize characters in any possible way!
I really hate females in any game because it totally breaks the immersion, it's like being forced in real life to cross-dress. I never even considered buying Tomb Raider because of that.
I think this discussion has no point rather some kind of prejudice.
Female character doesn’t breaks any immersion more than you killing thousands of enemies and survive, there are no chance that someone can survive enough battles, no matter how strong he/she be, kill after kill breaks any immersion more than any other thing in a game.
I understand if you don’t like female characters, and that may be ‘valid’ to questioning Tomb Raider’s style games, but that is not enough to questioning a game like this, with one character of each gender.
