The reason they are doing this is because the american video game industry has an embarrassing history of racism and sexism both in the medium itself, and within the companies. They don't even have the excuse that hollywood had, where they were forced by law to have mostly straight white men in films from the 1930s until the 1960s. What's happening now is a very clumsy attempt to redress the balance. To suggest that they're doing this because of a few people on twitter is genuinely psychotic, these are multi billion dollar companies who make more money that hollywood and TV combined.
Also this line is hilarious:
Video games are (still) full of poorly written white male characters, would you also demand that the writers replace them with black lesbians as well, since they "aren't needed for the story?"
When TLOU2 had a hamfisted transgender character in it, the appropriate reaction should be "this character is poorly written and should have less cringe character development" and not "a handful of twitter creeps with personality disorders are telling a multinational organisation what to do with their intellectual property". Lol jk, the irony is that the trans character in TLOU 2 was better written than almost any of the other characters.
