{"id":2529,"date":"2016-06-12T19:45:42","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T00:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=2529"},"modified":"2016-06-12T19:45:42","modified_gmt":"2016-06-13T00:45:42","slug":"sims-4-update-removes-gender-restrictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/2529","title":{"rendered":"Sims 4 Update Removes Gender Restrictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Ashley R. Lierman<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A new update to the popular <em>Sims 4<\/em> will remove gender restrictions from character options, letting players fully customize their characters&#8217; genders, clothing, and option to whatever they choose. The move came as a result of lengthy consultation with the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.out.com\/popnography\/2016\/6\/02\/woohoo-new-sims-4-update-deletes-gender-binary\">Out.com reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Electronic Arts said in a statement that it wanted to &#8220;make sure players can create characters they can identify with or relate to through powerful tools that give them influence over a Sims&#8217; gender, age, ethnicity, body type and more.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Players will have the ability to put any clothes, hairstyles, or accessories on their Sim&#8211;that means female-bodied Sims can wear suits and short hair, and male-bodied Sims can put on jewelry or high heels. And they can be as fluid as the player wants, too&#8211;the gender can be changed at any point in the game.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A tweet has also circulated with an image showing the actual customization options, which have been praised as showing careful thought about different aspects of gender expression:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Sims-4-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2531\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Sims-4-2-206x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sims 4 - 2\" width=\"206\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Sims-4-2-206x300.jpg 206w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Sims-4-2-315x459.jpg 315w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Sims-4-2-200x291.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Sims-4-2.jpg 436w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 206px) 100vw, 206px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While the change may be small, it may mean a great deal for making many players feel more welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ashley R. Lierman A new update to the popular Sims 4 will remove gender restrictions from character options, letting players fully customize their characters&#8217; genders, clothing, and option to whatever they choose. The move came as a result of lengthy consultation with the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), Out.com reports: Electronic Arts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":2530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,57],"tags":[670,752,751],"class_list":["post-2529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-media-of-note","tag-glbt-characters","tag-representation","tag-sims-4"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}