This woman works at Bioware. This is who calls the shots in the game industry.
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Well, yeah, but like...why. That's the only way to do it, unless they made some other shit up to justify it. Also, she had more power than a witcher. Why go backwards?
Also, I'm pretty sure the trials kill all women, and only men are witchers, unless I missed something. I didn't get super into the witcher stuff, so I'm not an expert on every bit of lore involved.
Knowing them they'll either go with:
she's trans all along! So stunning a brave! (but doesn't fit their real life denial of biology narrative)
the only men can survive the trial is just a lie told by the patriarchy.
According to the wiki, there's a special girl version. It kills 9 in 10 girls who take it, as opposed to the 7 in 10 of boys of the regular version. So basically it's a retcon that explains how Ciri did it and it's totally always existed and you just haven't heard about it.
The Trial of Long Grasses is administered in youth because the body is more receptive to change. I believe the insinuation is its basically an illusion to puberty and how the body changes then.
It doesn't make sense for Ciri to do it regardless of her powers because she can't live through it as an adult.
And if they say "oh well she lived because of her powers" then why would she need to do it at all if she still has them? Her Elder Blood powers are away and beyond any being left on their plane of existence. She doesn't need some comparatively hack job, bootleg attempt to become stronger.
In my mind, it's akin to a Primarch from WH40k, chopping his limbs off and jumping in a Dreadnought armor to "enhance" himself.