i see where you’re coming from, but some of the details in both games make it a bit difficult for me to accept that explanation (as much as i want to)
- vilia in BotW is repeatedly described as “a man sneaking into gerudo town”. gives me horrible vibes of “men invading women’s spaces”, especially since link is required to stare suspiciously at her and is given the option to accuse her for being a man
- once you do have the vai outfit and can enter gerudo town, their leader - riju - immediately notices that link’s “really a man”, rendering the whole disguise pointless. you still need to wear it to enter the town anyway though
- you don’t need to harass a trans woman in TotK, you just need to sneak in on your own. the gerudo then freak out because there’s a biological male in their spaces - they don’t phrase it like that but, that’s how it feels. ugh. one of the returning characters from BotW then vouches for you, giving you permanent permission to enter the town. however, all the random gerudo keep going “whoa a man what the heck” whenever you visit for the rest of the game, no matter what you wear
- in both games, the gerudo are written as aggressively heterosexual and constantly fascinated with finding men to kiss. they’re frankly not portrayed as positively feminist or remotely queer in any way, at least not to me
it’s very frustrating 🙃
i do have vscodium installed and i use it for our frontend projects, but that’s phpstorm!