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Wu also stresses the importance of how severe these issues can actually be by pointing out the grim cycle trans people often get caught in due to societal pressure and harassment."It's really, really important to get this right," Wu says. "It's not often that you're faced with life or death through creative choices that you make, but let's just look at the facts here: transgender people have some the highest suicide rates of anyone. The reason those rates are so high is because we have a society that continually makes them the butt of the joke, abuses them, makes fun of them. It's like you're constantly told that you don't matter. So let's say this theory comes true and Kojima puts another harmful narrative about this out there—it could literally cost lives."Exactly who Quiet is in the lore of Metal Gear remains to be seen, with nobody at Konami yet willing to confirm her identity (we did ask). It may well be that the only way any of us find out for sure is to play The Phantom Pain, when it's released in September. Until then, the only guarantee is that speculation will continue to spread across the internet, resonating the very real fear that Kojima could have bungled a central piece of what is potentially his Metal Gear series swansong.Follow Jake Kivanc on Twitter.Check out Against Me!'s Laura Jane Grace performing for Noisey's Acoustics series