Noawareness said
Yeah I know the originals were supposed to be a trans allegory but it wasn't in your face. It was clever and you could still watch all 3 without constantly having it rammed down your throat. 

I even watched the originals in advance, like a month ago, fully knowing what they were all about (the character "Switch" was originally supposed to be a woman in the real world and a man in the matrix which is a pretty cool idea) and it didn't have any effect on how much I enjoyed them. This one drops all the subtlety though.  

I mean, I was excited about it because I'm a genderfag so I watched it as soon as it dropped, fully expecting it to have a much more significant focus on gender identity, and I obviously loved it, so our experiences couldn't be any different, so before I even respond, I'm obviously biased in a way that's completely opposite your bias, obviously. 

That being said, I feel like it's like watching Roots and being mad that racism was shoved in your face.. Why would you watch a 2021 reboot of a movie from the 90s with a heavy focus on gender dysphoria and transition if you don't like trans shit in your face? I get the idea of the first three (+ Animatrix) being digestible without considering or at least without focusing on that reading of it, but, as much as I don't agree that it was 'in your face/down your throat' myself, wouldn't you have to assume that a movie from a trans bitch walking around in a cybergoth costume every day, that's a reboot of a series you know to have a trans focus, released in the era of 69 gender options, would have an unavoidably clear trans focus? 

 Now, grant that I'm stoned and I was mostly blissfully glazed over in nostalgia when I watched it, so maybe I'm not remembering well, but which parts did you feel like trans identity was shoved in your face? Aside from Bugs being obviously non-binary, and like, one or two one-liners in the montage of the game dev bullshitting about what the matrix is about, I don't really know what would stand out to a cis person. Everything else was exactly as subtle as any other entry, like Trinity getting pissed off at her program husband for calling her Tiff standing in as a metaphor for deadnaming and shit, and I, a trans nonbinary person, didn't even see it that way until I just tried to google specific trans moments in the movie.

I'm just weary of people who complain about having things that are just basic human stories shoved in their face, it seems totally logical to you because you're just not into that, but by some weird coincidence it always just happens to be basic human stories about minority groups and marginalized people that the majority sees as gross or offensive (kinda like juggalos......). I have a hard time believing that doesn't translate into you having a worldview that sees that group as subhuman/undesirable. If you don't want to see it in a movie, you probably don't want to see it in real life, right? That's.... exactly what having a problem with trans people means. "Live and let live" doesn't work under the condition of "just keep it the fuck away from me".  You can not wish violence on us and still find us disgusting, but you can't pretend that that's not "having a problem" with us..