Rockstar Games has quietly removed content that existed in the original release of GTA V from the next-generation console versions of the game. Transgender activists have celebrated the move as a win against “transphobia.”
Reddit user u/JayProspero first noticed that a toy displayed in the Arcade business office had been quietly changed by Rockstar. The “Captain Spacetoy” figure with “interchangeable genitalia” on the PS4 version of the game had been swapped to a generic male figure with “posable vomit direction” on the PS5 port.
Rockstar has also disabled the drag queen character models that spawn outside the Cockatoo night club. The models are still accessible in Director mode, but their voice lines have been removed.
The models still exist in Director Mode at the moment, but their dialogue options have been removed (presumably this means protagonist dialogue lines to these NPCs about using hormones etc are therefore unused now too).
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An LGBT group called Out Making Games that wants to “address and overcome the barriers that exist for LGBTQ+ professionals in the industry, both by transforming policies and institutions, and by changing hearts and minds through education,” has taken credit for telling Rockstar to remove the content.
“Last year we wrote an open letter to Rockstar Games, calling on them to remove transphobic content from Grand Theft Auto 5βs next gen release,” Out Making Games said in a statement. “Weβre thrilled to say that it appears they have.”
“Grand Theft Auto V is a wildly popular game with millions of players worldwide and this change can have a huge impact on the way that those players see trans people,” the statement continued. “Thank you to everyone at Rockstar who prioritized this issue – we ourselves are game developers and understand that even small changes like this take coordinated time and effort.”
Rockstar Games has faced heavy criticism for its handling of the GTA franchise in recent months, ranging from the poorly-received “Grand Theft Auto; The Trilogy; The Definitive Edition” to the new “GTA +” subscription service for next-gen GTA online console players who can pay to receive DLC content earlier.
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JUST THINK: Had the constitutional framers (like their early 1600 predecessors) established government and society upon the Bible’s immutable/unchanging moral law (including Leviticus 18:22, 20:13, etc.) there would be no out-of-the-closet, in-your-face LGBT movement today because no sodomite, lesbian, or “transgender” would dare risk exposing themselves (pun intended) to petition government for their “rights” or to parade their wares in public.
That they are doing so is just another abominable consequence of the constitutional framer’s rejection of Yahweh as America’s Sovereign and His moral law as supreme:
“[B]ecause they have … trespassed against my law … they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind….” (Hosea 8:1, 7)
Today’s America is reaping the inevitable ever-intensifying whirlwind resulting from the wind sown by the constitutional framers and fanned by today’s hoodwinked Christians and patriots who have been bamboozled into believing today’s whirlwind can be dissipated by appealing to the wind responsible for spawning the whirlwind.
For more, see Chapter 3 “The Preamble: We the People vs. Yahweh” of free online book “Bible Law vs, the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective” at Bible versus Constitution dot org. Click on the top entry on our Online Books page and scroll down to Chapter 3.
Then Chapter 9 “Article 6: The Supreme Law of the Land.”
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