so even in their fantasy world they have to play as a tranny, they can't just play as a default opposite gender character?

This is a good thing, never let them pretend to be a real woman character, make them pretend to be a pretend woman.... My head hurts from typing that

Never played The Sims and this just confirmed that I never will. Unless someone makes a "murder" mod that lets you beat other characters to death with a variety of blunt objects. Then I might.