don't tell me I'm the only one here that hesitated on this screen this screen as a kid

nebula42@lemmy.world to traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns@lemmy.ca – 124 points –

My story with the game is that I didn't want to get made fun of for playing as a girl, so I roleplayed as black instead of playing a self insert.

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i didnt hesitate, i picked the fukin girl

on an unrelated note, i cannot believe it took so long to realize this about myself

Exactly, no hesitation. In any game in any context.

I feel very uncomfortable when I have to play male characters.

This, but with the boy, and the name I chose for the character... Oopsies.

Finally chose the girl character when I was away in college and figured it was less likely people would know. Of course next time I see my best friend, he wants to trade pokemon and teased me for using a girl character with a feminized version of my name. Was almost a decade later when I considered I might not be cis.

Well, there’s also the fact so many cis men use female characters in games for many reasons like cooler armor etc. And they’re still cis, so you feel like « that’s not an indicator of being trans » but here we are…