Are you sure about that tho? I mean I prefer NPCs to acknowledge my character's gender, and not act completely neutral to it. If they replace male / female with a slider, how will NPCs react, or will gender be completely removed from existence?
And no, this does not protect their baby, this alienates supporters as we can all see. And the people who think binary gender options are oppressive were never going to play the game, and cannot be appeased anyway. The best thing they can do to protect their baby is completely ignore them.
Haven't anyone learned anything? If you do as they ask, they'll find another thing to be mad about, so pandering to them is a loose-loose.
The gameplay they just showed today clearly had an NPC refer to the female "strong solo" V by a female pronoun. Also, transgenderism has been a thing in Cyberpunk since the original pen and paper game. Which released in the 80s. Heck, its been part of the entire cyberpunk genre for decades.