>>43260730BUT 5E DOESN'T DO THAT!
There's an entire section of the rules devoted to helping you work out your character's identity. I say rules deliberately, because there are actual mechanics involved.
And what does the background section tell you? What your childhood on the streets was like, or your service in the army, or your relationship to your wizard master. All stuff that is important for your character, who exists, as D&D characters do, to go into dungeons, kill things, and get treasure.
What doesn't it cover? Sexuality and gender. Because those things are entirely within the hands of the group to decide as a facet of the world (unless they are playing an established setting, in which case there is that influence) and D&D does not give one mechanical fig what you stick your dick into, because it's a game about going into motherfucking dungeons and fighting motherfucking dragons, not the romantic relationship you have with the tavern owner.
If you want romance or other gender topics in your game of D&D, more power to you, but the rules are all but non-existent for such because that's not what the game is about.
You're complaining about non-characters when the game gives rules for making characters you can RP, and arguing that adding extensive gender inclusion would help make full characters when the game explicitly does not provide any rules for such a thing, because it's not the point of the game.
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