A glitch in the EA Sports FC 27 video game, which saw some women’s players appear in their underwear, will be resolved by a title update, the game’s manufacturer Electronic Arts has announced.
EAFC27, part of the world’s largest football video game franchise, was released in the United States and worldwide on September 25. Users with early access to the game, which went live on September 18, reported that some women’s character models would, in certain cut-scenes, appear without their kits, wearing only black underwear.
Damn, the actor is Elliot page too… The sexualization of trans people just adds another layer of creepiness to it.
False. The game came out in 2013. Page came out as trans in 2020. They were not sexualising a trans person.
Granted, it’s proper to say that a trans person was always trans. We don’t use his deadname to refer to his earlier work, nor do we use the gender identity assigned at birth. We say Elliot Page played a female character, and we can specify he is a trans man, but it’s not strictly necessary. While technically the trans community would say “he was always trans,” he didn’t make it known until 2020.
Also, the shower scene did not contain nudity that members of the public could access. I read up on the scene. Someone with a PS3 dev kit was able to use custom camera angles enabled by the dev kit that a publicly available PS3 would not be able to do. So they really weren’t sexualising Page at all.
Not sure he had already publicly said he was trans at the time.
So the extra layer might be in retrospect, but no matter what there was plenty of creepiness already.