I do not want to go the way of implementing things for certain groups of people or use any reasoning in that direction. That would go the way of a political discussion. We got enough of those already and this is still just a game.
Unfortunately, I think given the societies many of us live in, the idea of changing the gender of a character from male to female or vice versa is intrinsically political, either because it is shown impacting their characters or relationships or because it isn’t. Both options would, to me, be making a statement. Which is why I think it is probably best avoided unless planned from the start and done carefully and well.
But I completely sympathise with your desire to keep real world political discussions out of this thread so … mouth zipped!
