"The plan" as far dev said was to have a slow (!) transformation game. So it is intended to transform MC... slowly. Besides dev put in a lot other options and according to his writing more are planed, like a complete male path.
Is the shemale path still very much underdeveloped compared to regular woman?
I'm curious as well, I don't wanna part with my dick, and would rather play as shemale, or even better cute femboy, but it seems like that's hardly a game focus.
You may keep it if you take care about it.... or re-attach it by cheat mod if you accidentally lose it. And yes, since this is a slow transformation game there is a lot of content for that. Or to be more precises, female / shemale content is quite the same (a bit less shemale variations maybe since a bit harder to find... but dev definitely already added there and it should be quite equal now).
And nobody seems to mind MC's little extras at all.
a very tolerant city there.
That sounds doable, though are there really no references to you being a man as you play?
If not though, then surely it would be easy for the creator to make a fem start...
There is a lot flavor like MC doesn't feel girlish enough to use some stuff... but all that can be dealt with cheats by mod... or ingame within a few days. And there are some girls too who dislike cosmetics and stuff... and are reluctant wearing pink mini skirts. Up to your imagination.