people immediately construe racial differences as weakness... Frankly I think it adds flavor and wouldn't mind seeing it being added when they add the new genders. People will already have the option to change races... so should they decide they don't like the stats their race has they can change their mind.

Another option would be racial traits. Traits so far are mostly horrible and uninspiring... I'm hoping with the planned changes in 1.2 and 1.21 it will put traits into a position of greater prominance to help define class roles and job roles... wouldn't be too hard to have a minor racial trait added too.