The Persona franchise has long had issues related to homosexuality and transpho scare, and according to IGN, Persona 3 Reload eliminated transpho discrimination in the original game in specific scenarios.
In one scene in the original Persona 3, the team members try to strike up a woman on the beach, and Akihiko Sanada, Shunhei Iori, and the protagonist walk up to a character known as the "beautiful lady". After some back-and-forth conversations, Akihiko Sanada pointed out a bit of a beard on her chin, to which the beautiful lady responded, "I, I missed it?!" Shunping then exclaimed, "She's a man?!" ”
In Persona 3 Portable, the dialogue is slightly altered (the character name is changed to "pretty lady" instead of "beautiful lady"), but it still contains the same transgender scare.
However, IGN confirmed that the scene in Persona 3 Reload changed the dialogue, and the end result was the same - the main cast members fled the woman - but no longer because she was transgender, but because she was actually trying to sell them sunscreen.
In the new scene, the dialogue begins with "Pretty Lady" telling them "You guys know the sun in the sky is fake, right?" It was an artificial sun that was sent into space in the 80s of the last century. "And then we started going in the wrong direction. Her character name was then changed to "Lady of Delusion", and she told them that "regular sunscreen doesn't work against that fake sun" and tried to sell them a "special" sunscreen for 300,000 yen**. The team realizes that there is something strange about this character and leaves in a hurry. The scene is still a little weird, but at least in this new version, the discrimination against transgender is gone.
This isn't the first time Atlus has made changes to gay or transgender content in the Persona series. In 2020, Atlus changed some scenes that fans considered offensive and homophobic in the release of Persona 5 Royal in Europe and the United States.