In regards to the theme of psychosexual trauma; is the expectation to explore themes of how sexuality, gender identity and traumatic event related to these things and how they can affect a person or should we be focusing only on trauma relating to sexual assault/ violence? According to google the definition of psychosexual trauma is "-a profound emotional and mental response to sexual violence, assault, or ongoing abuse." but I feel like the description provided is slightly different from that.
the theme is broad on purpose. you could write about exactly what the google definition is, but its not just limited to that because psychosexual trauma can be so many things. the most important thing is that you pick the angle that you personally find interesting to tell. like yea it can be a result from abuse. it can be trauma from your gender or sexuality, being othered because youre gay or trans. it can be about the societal pressure put on you and how it shapes you as a person and how that manifests into your gender and sexuality and self. it can be how queer people inflict this on eachother. what i consider to be psychosexual trauma is a lot of things. ultimately its just characters in a story that show aspects of the middle part of a venn diagram of trauma, gender and sexuality, be it in whatever way it is.
the theme is intentionally broad, but thats because toxic yuri on its own is already so broad. but our theme serves to push people to write stories towards the types of stories we like to read and even then us judges have different ideas on what we specifically want to see
no game will be disqualified for "failing" to adhere to the theme. you write your heart out and if its a good story its a good story. its just that it happens that in the context of toxic yuri, psychosexual trauma just happens to be at the core of it and it already was the thing we were the most excited about last year, see the last year winning entries and our awards ceremony presentation
here is a quote from deaddeaddeath on the topic:
Think about it like this: how does trauma, mental, physical, emotional, inform the growth of a person's essential self and sexuality? How does one's position as an othered identity amplify the chances people have to inflict that kind of trauma? How can a person's own coping mechanisms, sexuality, identity, etc, that is a direct result of said trauma be weaponized in order to other them even further? How can people all huddled in this same bucket sort themselves into disparate arbitrary groups in an attempt climb over the bodies of those less fortunate in an attempt to escape.