Board Thread:Metal Gear Solid V/@comment-5085906-20140619165117/@comment-1672596-20150613095342

Kronnang Dunn wrote: 67.169.213.227 wrote: I'm not sure if some one said this already but I don't think that sex changes where A thing during that time period. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_reassignment_surgery_%28male-to-female%29

The game is set from the mid 70s until the mid 80s. Sex reassignment surgery has been around in the USA since the 60s. Much earlier in the rest of the world... Read more books son. Even still, it's extremely unlikely that Chico would have gotten gender-reassignment surgery, even ignoring the fact that both Kojima and Quiet's voice actors repeatedly denied a connection between the two. First of all, the remnants of MSF would have operated on a small radar to avoid being captured by any of the authorities, being on the lam in other words (based on statements made by both Ocelot and Ishmael about Big Boss being wanted internationally, dead more specifically). Even if they could afford the time to give someone gender change surgery, there's also the problem with finances. Surgeries, let alone gender change surgeries, are pretty expensive, and based on what Ocelot stated in the Afghan level, they had only just gotten their Mother Base up and running by the time Big Boss awoke from his coma, meaning they most likely don't have much to afford regarding finances. Getting some weapons, sure, but definitely not gender-change surgery. It would be unfeasible for Chico or anyone else to get gender change surgery at this point, especially prior to meeting Quiet. And let's not forget that Quiet is equipped with something to actually make her cloak at will and even alter her physical appearance to some extent, which aside from it being extremely expensive would most likely also be top-secret equipment as well (more likely for government projects than PMC projects. Then again, somehow DD has the finances to create a weather-altering device.).