Any games with trans* characters, stated or implied?

I haven't played it personally, but I think 'Dragon Age: Inquisition,' has a few trans* characters, and Dragon Age II. Hopefully this helped

 

Dragon Age: Inquisition does have FtM transgender character who is actually portrayed very well.

 

What's so poor about the way Birdo is portrayed?

 

Dragon Age Inquisition is your best bet for a positive trans character, although it's a trans guy. But It's still a step in the right direction as his pronouns are respected and you get berated if you say anything ignorant to him.

I believe Catherine also has a trans woman, although some things could be a bit offensive with how the game handled it, It's not nearly as bad as Birdo though.

 

you mean the manuals from Super Mario 2?

Like the ones that were like from the 80's?

That seems rather progessive for the time period.


In the modern games they don't make any sorta big deal outta birdo she just rides around with Yoshi and they're pretty chill.

 

Yeah, but Poison was trans for the dumbest goddamn reason. Apparently it was unacceptable to have a woman being punched in a game, so they just said "well, she has a dick" and then apparently it's fine. These days, her ambiguous sex is handled like a running gag, like characters saying things like "I can't believe you're a woman" when they defeat her in Street Fighter IV.

On the list of trans characters handled poorly, she is way, way up there.

Sometimes, the way other people treat a trans character is what makes it well handled. One of the better representations of transwomen I've seen was actually in Always Sunny in Philadelphia, where one of the main cast is being very discriminatory towards a transwoman and the rest of the cast--both main and supporting--are essentially berating and making fun of him for it.

 

I am not sure about this, but i think Leo of Tekken is. The game give her female pronouns but she is placed under the male category of Tekken Art Book. I am confused, but I love playing her!

 

That's most likely an error. It's not hinted anywhere else.

 

Leo was left ambiguous in Tekken 6 they could use both male and female customization items.

There is a theory floating around that Quiet in Metal Gear Solid 5 could actually be trans* but as of right now it's only a fan theory.

 

Leo apparently is a gender neutral character at first, because Namco wants a character that players will love "regardless of gender", but recently confirmed as female, named Eleonor.

 

I don't know why I only remembered this now but the one game that I'm disappointed doesn't have an option for trans* characters is the Sims. I write huge detailed back stories for characters and when I tried making an FtM teen sim it was basically impossible since all the clothes for female sims are uber feminine so doing someone transitioning was impossible. I ended up having to re-write the entire backstory and ended up doing an adult sim who had already transitioned. My friend who the character was supposed to be based on refuses to play the sims now.

Not exactly on topic but this seems the best place for this.

 

If you get more into the Dragon Age series, you might want to consider getting the comic books. There's a trans woman in the comics that was inspired by an employee of Bioware. She's also lightly mentioned in the most recent game Dragon Age: Inquisition.

 

in the japanese version for a paper mario game there's a trans* character, Vivian, and of course Birdo.

 

The magypsies in Mother 3 ... possibly? To me they look like drag queens, or magical transvestites, but they certainly are doing something interesting gender-wise. I recall someone in the game saying they're neither men nor women. Outside of the binary in other words.

 

I'd argue Naoto was handled a hell of a lot better than Birdo.

Some people has made claims that Makoto from Enchanted arms is mtf, but I call balderdash on that; he's just a gay caricature.