There a quite a lot of games that feature trans-characters, and I don't think that more that a handful of them receives amount of hatred&bigotry that this game (allegedly) gets. Which means that either the whole conflict is overblown, or the problem lies in something other than simply "Look, there's a trans-character in this game! Let's hate it!!!"
Let's just admit that such people exist on the both sides of the fence.
The gamemaking (as well as many other things, if you think about it) is more about "experience", rather than "talent". If you have a desire to make something, just try it - coding is very newbie-friendly these days and free engines are free.
I don't know much about trans-identity, or how realistic Nea's character is, and while I like her as a character, there's a certain point in her route that makes said route absolutely revolting for me (call me a bigot, if you want, but there's that). So, the main plotline of Nea's route is MC acting as a white-knight for acceptance of Nea's trans-identity, raging whenever somebody misgenders her and refuses to see her as a woman, jumping at them and demaning from them to change their views, and overall acting very supportive of Nea being a trans-woman. A bit too political for me, but whatever, it's a matter of taste. The point it makes is that MC is presented as a very trans-accepting person. Remember that. Now there's another plotline in her route and that is "MC's inner thoughts and his feelings for Nea". And here is where that problem lies. MC, who is normally portrayed as a literal manwhore (in one scene he literally pees at the face of some random girl he never saw before, without mentioning the fact of him fucking his entire family), who goes for every woman he sees (and yeah, you could say that it's a sandbox game and there are different routes, except that in order to progress in some routes you actually MUST progress in others, which means that all of them are connected in one storyline), but in case with Nea he SUDDENLY gets very careful with how he sees her - very careful to see her only as a friend and not be attracted to her - at one point literally says something like "Wait, did I just thought that Nea is cute? That doesn't makes me gay, does it?". And at this point the entire main plotline with MC being Nea's white knight turns into an extremely revolting hypocrisy, because the enitre time that he advocates for her being a trans-woman and forcing other to accept it, he himself doesn't actually sees her as a woman.
Now, how to make it all less disgusting? Easy - just flush down the toilet that entire subplot and replace it with something like "Manwhore MC know who he is and is afraid to hurt Nea's feeling so he ignores her feeling and keeps his distance, until he finally realizes that by doing so he already hurts her feelings". That at least would make sense with relation to the route's main plotine. Or, if the "I'm not gay, am I?" is so important, just change Nea from trans-woman to an effeminate gay guy. The story would retain its conflict points (bigot who screams "gay", bigot dad, woman's clothing as a crossdressing fetish), although it would lose the trans-ideas, which would obviously upset some people.
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