not a martian, honestreading through some old Knights of the Dinner Table strips I came across a few instances where people had problems with players playing characters of a different gender than their own.
Now I know #kotdt is satire, but satire often contains some truth. was this an issue for some people in the 90s? is that an issue for people now?
for the record my very first game involved a genderfluid player character way before I knew there was a word for it, and my own characters are about 50/50.
I never saw that as something to even think about. but I also always assumed that roleplayers were bound to be more progressive and egalitarian than some of the people I encountered later on