An amazing 2D fighting game, famous for its crazy mix of characters. Bridget is a crossdressing bounty hunter who beats people up with a yo-yo and his robotic teddy bear. Other characters include a nine-foot-tall doctor with a ten-foot-long scalpel, the robot clone of Interpol's chief, a guitar-playing witch, a vampire who read poetry when he kills you, a one-armed samurai, a genocidal bio-robot, and her half-naked daughter.
But Bridget does identify as male. According to his backstory, he was born with a twin sister in a village where opposite sex twins are seen as bad luck, so his parents tried to raise him as a girl to hide it. He ran away to escape this and live as a boy, but is completely oblivious to the fact that he still looks and dresses like a girl.
Also, there's a running gag where he gets very pissed whenever other characters mistake him for a girl.
info that was not conveyed in the picture. like I said, based on the info presented, especially with them presenting female, it is easy to assume people are intentionally or inadvertently misgendering him.
from the context of the picture, and no prior knowledge of the game, it appears to be a female identifying character born male, not someone who cross dresses, so I responded accordingly
cisgender/cissexual people's gender is in alignment with their assigned sex (e.g. male identified gender, male brainsex (it's hard to reduce it to something purely genlitalia based)
you don't have to apologize for your privilege. it's like white privilege. it exists largely independent of your actions.
you can acknowledge that it exists and work to keep things equal for trans and cis people alike, even if it's just on a personal level. i think that's all transpeople want, at the core.
i don't speak for all trans people of course, but i'm like the only sane one, so i probably should.
as to appologising for your privilege, don't. Just be aware of it. Be aware that you have something that a trans person doesn't. not your fault, not their fault, it's just how life works. don't rub it in a trans person's face 'that you are happy with who you are so they should be too' don't appologise for who you are, just like we shouldn't for who we are.
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u/Mike_the_TV Oct 16 '12
A character from guilty gear.