“Call of Duty” introduces non-binary character option. Cue the conservative outrage.

The gender selection screen in the newest “Call of Duty” title.
Photo: Screenshot via Twitter

Players in the latest title from the Call of Duty franchise now have an option to identify their character as non-binary, and some cis players are outraged.

The most recent game in the Cold War-era first-person shooter series is Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, released earlier this month. The game allows player to customize their characters by choosing their name, hometown, backstory, and skin color. And it has an option to set the character’s gender to male, female, non-binary, or “classified.”

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“I don’t think there were ‘non-binary’ people back in the 1980s, Call of Duty,” wrote Ian Miles Cheong on Twitter, incorrectly implying that non-binary people just started existing recently. In reality, people who don’t identify as either men or women have existed in many cultures and throughout history

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