@Samograj that might be fine except I think the game commits to the implication that Erica's being trans at all is inherently deception and she should be punished for it.
Persona 5 might not be as disgusting as Catherine but I played way more of it and it‘s a personal dumpster fire of mine. That game was so mean to Ryuji and Ann, who are good kids!! Yusuke may or may not have been originally intended to be a gay romance option but in the final game he is a creep. I don’t know where the teacher part-timing as a meido social link goes and I don‘t care. I know Futaba was sort of held up as a win for neurodivergent representation but also, sorry, I hated her a lot. I hated Morgana and wanted to empathize with him too but the Persona team’s sense of humour comes out the loudest in those characters, and it is a bad sense of humour. I would not want to be friends with these dudes—they are almost certainly obnoxious creeps.
Kojima‘s female characters post-The Boss are a dumpster fire of male gazy stunt-casting but, you know, he doesn’t have to have any women in his games. Someone should let him know that. He could just not have any. Make every one of his games like The Thing—Bechdel failures from start to finish. I'd be OK with that!!