Game Industry Showcases Transgender and Non-Binary Characters

Phaylen Fairchild
7 min readAug 19, 2021
The Sims 4

For the first time in history, transgender and non-binary people are seeing representation across a once male dominated industry.

Less than a decade ago, video games suffered a repeating trope of very specific representations across a swath of video games. Males were typically brutish and painfully hyper-masculine, swaddled in heavy armor, while women were…

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Phaylen Fairchild

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