Guilty Gear Strive's Bridget Becoming The Biggest Trans Woman In Gaming Should Make A Lot Of People Embarrassed
Guilty Gear Strive's Bridget has just been confirmed as trans, which is strange because the game has a Japanese developer and an angry troll with an anime profile pic told me being transgender isn’t a thing in Japan. The anime pfp community can't be... wrong, can they? Heavens to Murgatroyd. It's not just the angry weeb community who should be embarrassed over this (and it's not like they aren't used to embarrassment anyway), but the wider gaming community. Trans characters should not be a shock in 2022, and the fact that they are should be prompting questions about why.
A while ago, I had what you might call a spirited conversation with somebody about representation in video games. They asked me if I felt trans representation had gone too far. So few people in the world are trans, after all, so why should they be in every video game? While this idea is obviously untrue, this seems to be a fairly significant perception. Trans people used to be nowhere, and now they're somewhere - isn't that a little much? Some of you, evidently, liked it when we were nowhere. I asked this person to name for me a major video game starring a trans woman. You know, the thing I am. They could not, and thus had to concede that perhaps representation was not as saturated as they thought.
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I was cheating a little, calling their bluff like that. Birdo in Mario has been implied to be trans' since her debut (though this has been retconned and repressed), but she's not playable outside of Party games and the like. There's also Claire in Cyberpunk 2077, but she's also not playable and I have a complex relationship with my feelings for her. Poison, in Street Fighter, is a
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