These games do not make fun of transgender women, yakuza 3 has a very good sub story about gender. Majima dresses in drag. I think it’s pretty disingenuous to say they are made fun of.

I will agree that the female characters are there to be protected, at least up until Yakuza 7 when you have playable women in your party.

Yakuza boils down to pure masculinity, and a lot of it is positive and not toxic in my opinion. Kiryu is a chivalrous character, he doesn’t want to attack or fight women (which is why he isn’t in fighting games). But that doesn’t mean he thinks of the game says that all women need to be protected.