The official DnD FB page has this statement:
To our community,
Dungeons & Dragons stands by the stories our partners tell and we fully support the choices Beamdog has made in developing Siege of Dragonspear. Inclusivity is a core value of Wizards of the Coast and we believe that all people, regardless of ethnicity, background, gender identity or sexuality, should be free to play our games without fear of harassment or attacks. In July of 2014 we released the D&D Player’s Handbook for the fifth edition and included the following section as an example of our core values.
Sincerely,
Nathan Stewart
Director of Dungeons & Dragons
(For the record, ever since the first or second edition of DnD there has been an elven god/goddess that was either a hermaphrodite or changed gender occasionally.)
Naturally people are complaining to the owners of the DnD now.
This is the type of complaint that seems to be "fashionable" now and it's stupid.
It wasn't that they included a transgender person that has everyone so mad, it's because the transgender has no point to the story. It could be in the story or not. Just saying hey I'm transgender look at me! Yeah no thanks. That is trying to shove it down people's throats. I don't think most transgender people walk up and introduce themselves as a trans. That's stupid. I don't walk up to people as introduce myself as straight. I have my own personal views on the topic that I try not to involve in my hobby. I don't dislike anyone for the color of their skin or their sexual orientation. I let the person speak for themselves, I might not agree with their lifestyle choices but that their business, let's just play D&D and have fun!
There are different variations but the point seems to be, that nothing should exist unless it is relevant to the plot.
Minsc has Boo, but as Boo offers no relevance to the plot and isn't used in any quests, should it also have been removed? After all, all it did was add to the characterization of Minsc and help explain what kind of person he is.
Kinda like how Mizhena being trans might not have a huge effect on the plot but is part of her character. Anyway, I bet these people would not have complained if an NPC had mentioned that they are married but their husband/wife is elsewhere and the subject would not have been raised again. This kind of worship of conservation of detail only ever seems to show up when the story has something people don't like.
...And the demand that trans people should stay in the closet is similarly flawed because a) it shows up AFTER the PC asks her about it b) Not everyone lives in a closet and perhaps a GODDAMN PRIESTESS OF A WAR GOD DOESN'T HAVE TO FEAR RANDOM FUCKERS GOING ON TRANSPANIC IF THEY OPEN THEIR MOUTH! OR PERHAPS THEY LIVE IN A PLACE WITH LESS TRANSPHOBIA THAN USA?!?
Finally: "I let the person speak for themselves, I might not agree with their lifestyle choices but that their business, let's just play D&D and have fun!"
Well, clearly you get enraged and complain to remove a single transperson character when one shows up so I am sceptical of your claim.
EDIT: and then I saw this...
The fact that you even had - or chose - to include something like this in your PHB proves that you're trying to force a viewpoint on a community that really doesn't need it to be addressed. I'm pretty sure nobody is preventing anybody from playing D&D however they want, so stating that D&D is inlcusive is entirely unneccessary and inapropriate. Leave real world politics and social issues out of it, and just let people play the game however they want.
...Well clearly your comment disproves the claim you are making so fuck you "Mister random person on the internet."