Board Thread:Metal Gear Solid V/@comment-5085906-20140619165117/@comment-1672596-20140623114036

Mr. Grave wrote: Considering this game's theme and how dark it appears to be, sex change doesn't seem anything bizarre. However, Stefanie Joosten has released a statement saying that Quiet is female and Chico's male leading us to believe this theory's not true.

The theory also brings up the possibility of the Sandinista commander actually being The End.

I'm doubtful sex change would actually work in the Metal Gear games, even something as dark as The Phantom Pain. Don't forget, The Matrix (the first one) was particularly dark, even with the darker sequels, yet a plot point regarding one of the characters, Switch, being a girl in the Matrix when "she" was a male in the real world was cut from the final version because it was deemed too confusing to the audiences (as if most of the Matrix movies weren't confusing enough as it is). This plot point was apparently made because Lana Wachowski, then known as Larry Wachowski, was just beginning his transgender transformation into a woman. If the Matrix couldn't pull that off, I'm extremely doubtful The Phantom Pain will.