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== Video Games ==

* Poison and Roxy from ''[[Final Fight]]'', both male-to-female. They [[Bowdlerise|didn't make it]] Stateside in the console versions, though (thank you very much, [[Censorship Bureau|Nintendo Standards and Practices]]). In fact, Poison doesn't reappear until ''Final Fight Revenge''. From that point forward, she sticks around as Hugo Andore's manager/bodyguard/bickering best friend, i.e. that's how we see her in ''Street Fighter III''.

** The amusing fact is that this whole situation actually arose out of trying to ''prevent'' censorship. Capcom of Japan knew that it was not kosher to depict violence against women - [[Critical Research Failure|so their excuse was that the characters weren't born as women in the first place]]. They have gone further on record that Poison's status is post-op in America and pre-op in Japan.

** (As [http://kotaku.com/5888814/a-twenty+minute-documentary-about-the-gender-of-final-fights-poison this] in-depth documentary points out,) Poison and Roxy are both labeled as "newhalf" in their concept art and Poison has the term in the original Japanese instruction booklets for the first two games in the series. As the booklet came out two years in Japan before it hit Stateside, it is unlikely that Capcom made this change simply to accommodate Nintendo. While Capcom may not have considered them to be women, they were still "newhalves" from the very beginning.

* Perhaps the most famous video game example is [[Mario|Birdo]], who was described in the [[All There in the Manual|manual of her first appearance]] as "wanting to be called Birdetta" and "wanting to be a girl". Although she started as a crossdressing male, more recent appearances have hinted ([[Captain Rainbow]] provided more concrete... evidence) that she has since had "the operation", and transitioned to a female body.

* It's a hot point of debate in the ''[[Persona 4]]'' fandom whether this character is {{spoiler|[[Bifauxnen]]}} or {{spoiler|trans}}, but one can make a pretty strong case for {{spoiler|1=Naoto being FtM. He dresses and identifies as male to match his ideal mental self, a "hard-boiled" ace detective. Additionally his shadow, representing his repressed emotions, while it does reveal his biological sex, also attempts to perform do-it-yourself surgery on him.}}

** This interpretation doesn't hold much water, since {{spoiler|Naoto}} very clearly states that she accepts her gender:

{{quote|{{spoiler|'''Naoto''': I have to be an adult...I have to be a man...with that way of thinking, I was running away from myself. I finally think I can accept myself. I am a woman. And a detective.}}}}

* Examples from [[Dept. Heaven]]'s "Union" games:

** [[Lethal Joke Character]] Eater from ''[[Blaze Union]]'' has two personalities, one of which is male. Eater is biologically female, but when the male half is in control, he is treated by all other characters and by the game system itself (which has different unit formations based on gender) as a man who just so happens to be running around in the girly clothes his other personality put on in the morning.

** ''[[Gloria Union]]'' has Kyra, who identifies (and is treated by the game's system itself) as intergender.

{{quote|'''Husky Dwarf:''' I've got a little something for everybody.}}

* Subaru Kujou in the fifth ''[[Sakura Taisen]]'' game is pretty clearly genderqueer; zie always uses gender-neutral speech (at least in the Japanese version), refuses to indentify as male or female, and dresses in both masculine and feminine attire.

 

== [[Visual Novels]] ==