26th Aug 2011 | 24 notes
How Video Games Helped Me Go From Boy to Girl

http://gamessavedmylife.tumblr.com/post/9407855904/how-video-games-helped-me-go-from-boy-to-girl

Morgan McCormick, a transgender gamer, talks about how video games were an essential part of her ability to accept herself and her identity as a woman.

I was born a redheaded boy, but not by choice. Okay, the red hair part was cool because it looked like I was on fire all the time, and things on fire are cool. But boying was no es bueno. I'd felt like a girl ever since I was three, and yet all around me there were boys happy being boys, and girls happy being girls. Everyone seemed to belong in their skin, and that's a huge thing to take for granted, believe me. Feeling isolated, I squirreled myself away in fiction, and lived as much of my life there as possible, with badasses being my favorite characters. X-Men's Wolverine, Act Raiser's The Master, Metal Gear Solid's Revolver Ocelot, Blood Omen's Kain, all of which were men, so clearly if I wanted to be cool, strong and confident, I had to ride the guy train for life.