Don't ask, don't tell - Relationship Thought Experiment

[HyoMinPark]

If you start dating someone and they lie about their gender, then the issue is Dishonesty, and not gender. (if you emphasize gender, this is transphobia)

I mean, if I ever were interested in dating via this game, how would it make me transphobic to be angry at someone who lied to me and said they were a male, but it came out that they’re actually a female after I had invested a lot of time in a relationship that was more than just friendly? While I don’t really care about sexuality, I usually tend to consider myself heterosexual. Being angry that they lied to me is not the same as being transphobic, especially if the person isn’t actually a transgender individual but just a liar with regards to their real life gender.

Getting upset because some people playing a female character and expressing themselves as being female were actually born male is literally transphobia. It's an expectation that trans people inform everyone they are trans.

Males that play female characters are not always transgender, though. I feel like you’re somewhat insinuating that they are. Two of my best friends are males and they both prefer to play female characters in video games. They aren’t transgender; one is in a happy relationship with a girl he has known since his school days. What are you even getting at? Are you seriously insinuating that all males who play females are expressing themselves as females in real life? That they are actually transgender? What if they just want to play a female character?