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Imaginary Worlds

The Power of the Makeover Mage

Imaginary Worlds

Eric Molinsky

Arts, Science Fiction, Fiction, Society & Culture

4.82.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In some video games, you can choose which character you want to play, and you can customize the look of those characters. For many transgender players, that option played a significant role in their lives. Reporter and podcaster Jaye McAuliffe co-hosts this episode, as she reflects on her own gender transition and the experience of others who discovered that they can use video game avatars to begin reimagining themselves in the real world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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You're listening to Imaginary Worlds. A show about how we create them and why we suspend our disbelief.

1:04.0

I'm Eric Mullinsky.

1:08.0

So in my last episode I explored role-playing video games. And how the choices that you make as a character

1:13.0

can reveal a lot of things about yourself. But there's another aspect of games that I hadn't really thought about.

1:19.0

In some video games you can choose what type of character you play.

1:23.0

And for a lot of players it's just kind of a lark where you get to be somebody that's just very different than yourself.

1:28.0

But for some people choosing a video game avatar that doesn't look like how you look at the moment

1:34.0

can be very significant. Could even be life changing.

1:40.0

Jamekollef is a reporter in Arizona and she's a podcast called We Must Ignite,

1:44.0

which tells the story of women, non-binary people, and trans men.

1:48.0

And she pitched us this really interesting idea for an episode because her journey into becoming transgender began with video games.

1:57.0

I thought her story was really interesting and so she is going to be our guide through this episode.

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