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GameLord113 posted...

Could be because video games allow you to become someone different or create a character of who you are. If I felt I was trapped in a body I didnt identify with, that freedom or escape can definitely be appealing. Plus who doesnt want to be a big boobied adventurer who saves the world.

This is the first thing that comes to mind for me, though it's very much just baseless speculation that sounds plausible. In a similarly baseless vein, I could believe that there's also enough of a history of gamers being social outcasts that similarly-ostracized trans people felt at home among them, or that people who were already social outcasts for being nerds felt like they had less social status to lose by coming out as trans, or that gamers are less inclined to ostracize people because they've experienced it themselves (this last one is probably the least plausible. Gamers are dicks).

Of course, for that matter, I don't even know that trans people really are overrepresented in gaming or if TC's just displaying confirmation bias because he's totally fine with trans people. This idle speculation may be efforts to explain a trend that doesn't actually exist. Who knows?

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