Rockstar Games remove transphobic content from GTAV

Last year we wrote an open letter to Rockstar Games, calling on them to remove transphobic content from Grand Theft Auto 5’s next gen release. We’re thrilled to say that it appears they have.

Although there has been no official announcement from Rockstar, GTA Community has reported on specific instances where the content has been changed or removed:

The models still exist in Director Mode at the moment, but their dialogue options have been removed (presumably this means protagonist dialogue lines to these NPCs about using hormones etc are therefore unused now too).

PC vs PS5. Thanks @SpiderVice for the PC screens. pic.twitter.com/rjkKkMfBtG

— Kirsty Cloud (@kirstycloud) April 8, 2022

Thanks and credit to Carolyn Petit for the article that prompted us to write the letter and to all the outlets who covered the issue over the lifetime of the game.

Grand Theft Auto V is a wildly popular game with millions of players worldwide and this change can have a huge impact on the way that those players see trans people. Thank you to everyone at Rockstar who prioritized this issue - we ourselves are game developers and understand that even small changes like this take coordinated time and effort.

You can read more about this in the press coverage below:

• Rockstar looks to have removed ‘transphobic’ content from GTA 5’s next gen release | VGC

• "Transphobic" Content Removed From Rockstar's GTA 5 (PS5, Xbox Series X)

• Rockstar Updates ‘GTA 5’ After Content Was Deemed To Be Transphobic

• GTA 5 updated on PS5 and Xbox after complaints about transphobic content