Transgenderism In Games

[Guest Miss_Construe]

Infinite Undiscovery:

Vic: F2M Crossdresser

[Guest Purim]

A transgender... Pokémon?

It's more likely than you think.

Quoting Bulbapedia here:

Azurill is currently the only Pokémon which does not evolve based on gender whose gender ratio does not match that of its evolved forms, being female 75% of the time while Marill and Azumarill are female only 50% of the time. Due to this, one of every three female Azurill evolve into a male Marill (whether or not this will happen is determined by the hidden personality value). It is unknown if this is an error in programming or if it was intentional to reference real-world animals that change sex under specific conditions.

Article for the cute bugger here: http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Azurill

[Guest Sameus]

Bethesda Softworks was accused of bashing transwomen in Fallout: New Vegas. One of the sidequests wants you to stop a crazed super mutant who wears a blonde wig and pink heart-shaped glasses. Before the game was released Official Xbox Magazine claimed that Tabitha (the super mutant in question) was just a male pretending to be a female due to insanity. You can see why some weren't happy about this (it was resolved when Bethesda confirmed that Tabitha was female before she progressed into a super mutant).

In Dragon Age: Origins you can find a transwoman working in a brothel. 'Nuff said.

[Guest SuperKali]

it was resolved when Bethesda confirmed that Tabitha was female before she progressed into a super mutant

This was my understanding from the beginning. It was discussed with Fallout 3 that those Super Mutants were likely mostly female as well. I think some even speculated that Fawkes was female. While playing New Vegas and doing that quest I never once got the impression that Tabitha was mtf or anything other than a female super mutant.

[Guest ladyamy]

I played a online game once where you can have a spell done to you to change your sex from male to female or v female to male.

If only it was that simple. lol

[Guest ametur_poet]

In the PS2 game Persona 4 Naoto Shirogane is a crossdresser. I really don't want to say FTM because she only wants to change sexes due to her career path being a detective. Naoto believes that since the whole detective field is male-dominated she would never fit in as a female.

Picture of Naoto

I absolutely loved Persona 4, and not only because it is a fantastic game. It is also, in my opinion, the only game that looks at the issues of transsexuality and homosexuality in a constructive, meaningful way. Most games that attempt this end up using shallow token characters, or even worse, flat-out parodies, but Persona 4 doesn't insult the player's intelligence, and offers relatable characters that you actually care about. If you want to hear more about this topic in the game, watch this video, they explain it much better than I can: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/extra-credits/2520-Sexual-Diversity

Personally, Naoto was an inspiration to my idea of personal identity and sexuality; among other things, her role in the game is what motivated me to talk to someone about my own feelings of possible transgenderism. (That's why I chose her as my forum avatar!) If you are interested to see what the topic of sexuality can bring to a game's narrative, if presented in a meaningful way, then definitely play this game.

[Guest AlexForever]

You can crossdress in fable 1 & 2 and Saint's Row 2, and the upcoming game Fallout: New Vegas has a hostile faction leader who is an MtF, although I find her a little offensive, being a 9 foot tall orange mutant with huge muscles wearing a blonde wig and pink heart-shaped sunglasses calling herself Tabitha

She's not a MtF,it's just that all Supermutants lose their sex characteristics when they turn into one, so they all look like massive bodybuilders, so the ones of female gender look like crossdressing bodybuilders but they aren't trans; there is also a female Supermutant that can be your companion (Lily is her name).

[Guest AlexForever]

Also in Fable 1, Lost Chapters version there is a mission with a Bordello...one way to finish it is to crossdress as a redhead and sleep with the aptly named owner (Mr.Grope...LOL)...he will reveal meaningful information after he falls asleep...

[Guest Gabochi]

Whose to say he didnt find he loved it and off the screen had a little fun?

He probably did like it

[Guest Nia]

I believe someone mentioned before they wanted to see Poison in a fighting game.

Well, your wish has been granted by Capcom, Poison will be making her fighting game debut in Street Fighter X Tekken, obviously on the Street Fighter side of the game. Here you go:

And the gameplay trailer from San Diego Comic Con:

Edited July 21, 2011 by MaryEllen
Image and non transgender video removed per rule 26 of the site Terms and Conditions

[Guest CattalieChan]

and it's not just cloud, but that whole gym of masculine guys. they make me smile so much every time.

[Guest Luna_Luv2942]

I don't know if anyone else knows this but Vivian from Paper Mario The Thousand Year Door is MtF in the Japanese version and Italian version of the game. There is also Flea from Chrono Trigger who is a crossdresser. I can't really think of any others that haven't been already mentioned.

[Guest Roseate]

I remember a game I played when I was young that had a big transgender theme but you didn't find out about it until a far way into the game.

It was called Faria, it was for the NES. It had a FTM as the main character, sort of. The player starts as a warrior-girl with seemingly no background given. After some plot line (rescue the princess, get poisoning antidote, fix bridge to next town, usual old rpg fare plot conventions), you find out about a prophecy. A man from a village full of men is said to slay the evil wizard who happens to be the main villain of the game. You go and confront the wizard - and find out in the process that your main character was the man from the prophecy and, to try and counteract it, the wizard cast a spell to turn you into a woman. After slaying the wizard, the curse is broken and you change back into a man, and finish the rest of the game that way.

Thanks you so much, it seems no one remebers this game, but whenever I'm in a disscussion about trans game characters I always bring it up. It is a harder one to find, took me years to obtain a copy and even then it was pure luck a copy wandered into a local store, and even then it was rather expensive.

[Guest Melissa~]

Dead rising is infamous for it's wardrobe. GemstoneIV a MUD where you wear what you want period, the players are hardcore, you have to be on a game that's now 24 years running. Scarface has several MTF's in the islands, this optional homophobic mission almost got scarface an AO rating rather than just mature.

[Amber_cascade377]

I don't know who has played the new Diablo 3, but the lord of terror has some very feminine features. Even our kids commented on it.

[Guest artistformelyknownasnicole]

Spoilers, but, Erica from Catherine is an mtf. There's a subtle hint in the game and if you get the true Katherine ending, one of the other characters says she was known as Eric in school.

[Guest The Avatar]

I do believe Poison from Final Fight and Street Fighter is trans. Pretty sure that was unintentional, though, and only came about because certain audiences were objected to hitting women in a fighting game and Capcom declared her to be a "newhalf" instead.

Also Birdo.

Poison is transgender... What? That's awesome!

[Guest Velanna]

I have heard and seen stories about Birdo from the classic Mario games. Some say that Birdo is a female character (because of the bow on his/her head) but also in the older Mario games Birdo was classified as both male and female (male in some games and female in others). Nintendo hasn't really disclosed what sex Birdo is, though. At least this is from what I remember. lol