I thought a few times about whether to post this, anticipating backlash, but I think I want my opinion to be heard.

Tracer’s new All-Star skin makes me, a lesbian, pretty uncomfortable. Tracer has been fantastic lesbian representation - I love that Blizzard hasn’t shied away from making her soft butch and honestly, she’s a godsend. She’s my favorite character.

However, the All-Star skin has super feminized her. She’s got lipstick. Long, dangly earrings. Pastel colours, less ‘butch’ hair and just… for me, it harks back to spending my life trying to avoid being forced into dresses, makeup and heels. To feminize such a fantastically butch character feels like a big regression to me. I don’t think anyone who hasn’t been gender non-comforming can understand exactly how uncomfortable it is to see another gender non-conforming character casually returned to conformity. Surely we can save the feminine costumes for feminine characters?

It just makes me super uncomfortable and I hope not many people use it.