World of Warcraft is getting more flexible gender expression tools

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The alpha version of World of Warcraft's next expansion (titled Dragonflight) has opened up for player testing, revealing some new changes to the game's character creator. Starting with Dragonflight, body types for in-game characters will no longer be designated by gender, instead simply being labeled as "Body 1" and "Body 2."

As spotted by Polygon, Body 1 will replace the phrase "male" in the character creator, and "Body 2" will replace the female designation. The first body type will include options for facial hair and other traits formerly designated as "male",  and "Body 2" will host the traits formerly designated as "female." 

Players will be able to choose between these two body types when creating a new character or when visiting a barbershop in the game's major cities. The barbershop feature has been around for some time, and had previously allowed players to change character features beyond a simple haircut.

Blizzard isn't the first company to expand the gender options in its character creator, though its improvements come after a year of reckoning at the studio (and its parent company Activision Blizzard) over allegations of sexual harassment, discrimination, and abuse.

According to World of Warcraft news and data mining site Wowhead, Game Director Ion Hazzikostas also indicated in an interview that the company hopes to allow players to customize their voice lines in the future. This would allow them to use different voice packs regardless of which body type they choose.

In Wowhead's plunge through the data files of the Dragonflight Alpha test, it also found text strings indicating that players might have the ability to select their pronouns after the expansion is fully released. 

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