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Cisgender ~ a form of gender identity wherein a person identifies as the gender they were assigned as at birth.Transgenderism ~ a form of gender identity wherein a person identifies as a different gender from the one they were assigned as at birth.Assigned Gender ~ the gender a person was identified as when they were born to put in crass terms, a transperson’s “original gender”, although I’d avoid putting it that way.Plus, since it's my birthday today, why not talk about a topic so deeply close to my heart? But first, it’s important to note a few important terms that those of us in the trans community use: I am a transwoman myself, so it excites me to see society, and thusly video games as an extension, become so much more comfortable with exploring issues of gender identity, but it also pains me to see the sheer hatred aimed at us throughout our history, and even to this day.īut instead of simply crying about it, I think it’d be prudent to instead showcase a bit of our lovely game industries history with issues of transgenderism, how they’ve been treated – for better or for worse – and how that treatment has evolved over the decades. It is also not the same as crossdressing or transvestism, wherein a person simply enjoys or gets sexual pleasure out of dressing in clothing typically associated with a different gender from their own.
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It’s important to note that this is very distinct from sexual orientation a transgendered person can be straight, gay, bi, pan, asexual, it doesn’t really matter, because that typically in no way impacts on which gender they identify as. Transgenderism is when a person strongly identifies as a different gender from the one they were assigned as at birth, most often (but not always) male-to-female, or female-to-male. Among the many things video games have improved along their long lifespan are diversity of characters, which absolutely still needs a lot of work, but is improving each year to be so much more inclusive of all types of gamers people of colour, women, the whole spectrum of sexual orientation, and of course transgendered persons.
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Video games are maturing and growing at a very rapid rate, moving past the days where walking from point A to point B without context was enough to suffice, into a very broad scope of visual design, gameplay concepts, and character exploration.
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