Have games helped with being transgendered?

[Felix]

I like to play Kingdom of Loathing sometimes. You can get a trophy if you get enough backalley sex changes. I'm sure that's offensive, but the site overall is pretty droll and clever. All black and white, too, so my browser has no trouble with it.

[amrisa loftus]

D&D in my youth (table top)... Although I didn't play female characters out of fear of the group I played with, the ability to imagine alternative lives was something that allowed me to explore various ideas, values, and play with different gendered aspects but usually just one aspect at a time so I didn't out myself and my general inability at the time to accept what I already knew. That being said, I honestly believe that without being able to explore other realities I probably wouldn't be here now. Needed an outlet that was imaginative, creative, social, etc. I did get more chances to play a plethora of female characters when I was DM because we are common in a market square or inn. Always when I felt most at home!

Since I've been playing D&D as female for a while. that has helped my friends with the whole thing about me becoming female.

[Ayden]

Are you only asking about online games/MMOs? I don't play either, but I have been known to enjoy a good round of Tekken or Soul Blade when I was feeling frustrated. I also like classic RPGs, but it's really because it gives me a chance to take a breather and gives me a time out from life in general. I rarely play though, since I am pretty busy.

I don't think they have helped with being trans, but I have fun playing them with friends or my sweetheart.

[GinaDouglas]

Online roleplaying was instrumental in helping me find my true self.

[Stefan]

They haven't exactly helped with being transgender but they definitely helped me get through my teenage years. I used to play Habbo Hotel (a virtual place where you make a character, talk to people and make your own rooms). I was able to live as a boy on the internet which probably saved me from depression. I do wish however that I had just come out and stopped living in a fake world. Everyone in my family knew that I was living as a boy on the internet though so it didn't surprise them at all when I came out as trans. But seeing as how I was 11 years old when I first started living as a boy online I don't think I was ready to come out yet. I was still just experimenting with my gender.

[deatsabat546]

i have to say video games did help  me with being transgender.
it was nice to being able to pick and play as a charter of my true sex

[Felix]

My teenage years didn't exist. That's my story and I'm sticking to it tonight. No videogames were involved.

I will say that I think games make life sane and interesting and okay. They can be colorful, safe, and clever. They can be intense and challenging. They can let you be what you want. Play is really really important, however you go about it.

[Maja.V]

Yes, actually, games did help. I started playing games at the age of 8 (now 22) and I think they had a massive influence on me. They kept me sane, in a way, because I would always play games that had the option of playing a female character (even more so if it had character customization, as well), and I down right refused to play any kind of other game. Even if the game was awful, I still enjoyed it. It made me feel like I am the character, being myself in a fantasy world, even if for a little while.
Now that I'm transitioning, I don't find it unbearable not to play such games anymore.

[clairebear78]

I don't know if games helped me, but l do know playing World of Warcraft for 7 years allowed me to escape reality and allowed me to visualize myself as the female character, but it kept me thinking about being transgendered and my depression would only kick in when l wasn't playing. Since cancelling my account l have found very little interest in gaming at all. Now a days l enjoy singing in my car and oddly removing body hair with an epilator. Which l find peaceful and soothing, except the ingrown hairs which hurt a lot.