The crux of the criticism here (ironically made all the more loud and vehement by the resistance to it) is the very clear difference in treatment with the same type of character just because she's now a woman.
How many male Cids have we had over the years? I can't think of the exact number of the top of my head, but it must be somewhere around 10. And how many of them have showed up looking like this:
The first time Cid's a woman? Just gotta expose everything. I mean, she's a woman! Can't just treat her the same as you would any of the male Cids, right? That would be preposterous!
