I prefer to play male. I am extremely disinterested in female butts, or most kind of butts for that matter. I also don’t feel represented by a female character on screen just because they are female, as in real life I don’t happen to run around waving swords and magic at anyone who pisses me off, and I am usually not acting as a cleptomaniac.

I also find that in most games the writing is either gender neutral or fits male characters more and most attempt at make the MC sound like a female tends to end up seriously cringe worthy. I must admit this seems to have been improved a lot in the past few years, but it still happens. I also have ptsd since Anomen and male MC’s tend to have much better written romance options - again this is something that is steadily improving these days (just look at Gale and Astarion) but thankfully these romances nowadays just tend to ignore the players gender.

Who knows, one day I might end up playing a female character, but for now I am a female gamer strictly playing male characters only.

That being said, the BG3 actually doesn’t take your gender into account. The only conversation I found so far where it did matter was where you can tell Mol that you are not her Mother/Father, and that is it. As far as the world of BG3 is concerned your gender is your business, which is really nice.