This'll be one time I'll be happy to see Nintendo roll out a Cease and Desist from modifying their game code.

It's not mentioned in the portion here, but I hope he hasn't made his text modified version of a Nintendo classic game available for download anywhere.

Why are people crying about this seriously?? Young children in general greatly prefer to play as their own gender in games, so this father changed a few words in the game so his daughter could believe she was playing as a girl which she would most likely prefer.

I sincerely hope Nintendo releases a Zelda game with a female link as a protoganist to see how much you guys would lose it then.

No idea why everyone is upset.

I'm up to the idea of a female Link. It's just that the A Link to the Past Link is male, not female. That's it xDDD.

But isnt Link is meant to be a representation of the player, thus he has no voice and in ocarina at least he can be named whatever you wish. You can call him Joe and "Link" is then not a part of the game. If you can change his name to something other than link why not change some pronouns? As said in the OP in link to the past the player sprite is gender ambiguous. I guess a lot of people really love the game from their childhood and any modification even one as slight as this and done for the enjoyment of a little girl is HERESY.

Nah, I don't think it's heresy or something like that and it's not such a big deal. I just find it a bit absurd, because she could enjoy the game either way with the original version. More of a waste of time if you ask me. But I think it wouldn't be a bad idea for Nintendo to make a gender ambiguous Link in the future. 

You know what some kids are like if a little boy is given a game where he has to play as a girl there's a good chance he won't play it, and assume the opposite can be said.

Why is this news worthy?

I'm not an expert in little boys actually. I didn't have any problems back then and didn't gave a damn about the protagonist gender (and I still don't give a damn about it). The father worded it as if it's not because of the girl having problems on playing it as a boy, and he just did it because of yes. But if it was the case of the girl don't want to play it because Link is a male (which I very much doubt it, but who knows) it wouldn't harm anyone actually. I just doubt it a lot. 

In the words of the great Anita Sarkeesian "Everything is sexist, everything is racist, everything is homophobic and you have to point it ALL out".

The modern lefts mantra.

Kotaku and other sites make it newsworthy