Remember how in DND/BG there are literal Divine beings, arcane spell casters, cursed items [belts, books, etc], and all other manners of things that can and will flat out change the sex of someone for various reasons?
Well the company that did the remaster thought it somehow smart and on topic in such a universe to add in a trans character.
A character that could if they really wanted literally transition through Wish.
Or a Divine favor.
Or putting on the fucking Cursed Belt of Gender you get from the tent immediately after exiting Irenicus' intro dungeon at the very start of the fucking game.
Or finding something like that that book Edwin wants under the graveyard that he later fucks up using but fixes later on before getting turned back into Edwina by Elminster during a squabble mentioned in the epilogue.
Note the part I emboldened: "if they really wanted". That's the telling part. The rhetoric behind trans individuals is that they want to transition. Yet in a fantasy setting that should mean MtF and FtM should literally not exist because said transitioning can actually happen said event doesn't occur.
Why? Because transtrenders don't actually want to change. They don't want to be M, or F. They want to be MtF [and to a lesser degree FtM since the insanity is always one sided here]. They want to be reminded and remind the world they can't pass - and some really, really don't pass in the slightest. It's entirely antithetical to what the larger movement is meant to be about and as a result has the same validation as large bowel movements more than anything.
Wish. Divine plea [paid for by various donations to any number of clerics/churches because Faerûn is filled with dieties], Cursed Belt of Gender/other items, powerful enough spellcaster.
All viable options ranging in ease of access/cost but no, the developers don't actually want "the problem" solved because if it ever was then they wouldn't have anything to make them special [not that they do now anyway] and wouldn't have anything in their life to bleat about.
Remember how in DND/BG there are literal Divine beings, arcane spell casters, cursed items [belts, books, etc], and all other manners of things that can and will flat out change the sex of someone for various reasons?
Well the company that did the remaster thought it somehow smart and on topic in such a universe to add in a trans character.
A character that could if they really wanted literally transition through Wish.
Or a Divine favor.
Or putting on the fucking Cursed Belt of Gender you get from the tent immediately after exiting Irenicus' intro dungeon at the very start of the fucking game.
Or finding something like that that book Edwin wants under the graveyard that he later fucks up using but fixes later on before getting turned back into Edwina by Elminster during a squabble mentioned in the epilogue.
Note the part I emboldened: "if they really wanted". That's the telling part. The rhetoric behind trans individuals is that they want to transition. Yet in a fantasy setting that should mean MtF and FtM should literally not exist because said transitioning can actually happen said event doesn't occur.
Why? Because transtrenders don't actually want to change. They don't want to be M, or F. They want to be MtF [and to a lesser degree FtM since the insanity is always one sided here]. They want to be reminded and remind the world they can't pass - and some really, really don't pass in the slightest. It's entirely antithetical to what the larger movement is meant to be about and as a result has the same validation as large bowel movements more than anything.
Wish. Divine plea [paid for by various donations to any number of clerics/churches because Faerûn is filled with dieties], Cursed Belt of Gender/other items, powerful enough spellcaster.
All viable options ranging in ease of access/cost but no, the developers don't actually want "the problem" solved because if it ever was then they wouldn't have anything to make them special [not that they do now anyway] and wouldn't have anything in their life to bleat about.