Today, SEGA broadcast a news stream for PSO2: New Genesis. The last part of it mostly focused around character creation. You'll find it at 1 (hour) 23 (minutes) in this video- https://youtu.be/gUsd9cTipJw?t=4994
As a reminder, this is the Japanese side of things, not even North American localization at this point. Four body types: Humanoid type 1, Humanoid type 2 (Racial traits like Newman ears and Deuman horns are cosmetic, and you can even have both), Cast type 1, Cast type 2. How do you think women will feel if they started being called "Type 2s" instead of "women?"
That's what I'm curious about too- if racial physical features are cosmetic, how will it determine stats and race classification in PSO2 prime (there's at least one conversation where it can directly reference your own race- meeting Io as a Deuman)? As far as I'm aware, they aren't planning to throw out the stat formula in prime, just start from level 1 and not have racial stats in NGS.