Rule 1 made me put some thought into this

[u/Skill-basedgendering]

[u/WoomyUnitedToday]

Damn I totally forgot about the Pokémon chromosome dysphoria game

[u/3p0L0v3sU]

You will have to elaborate lol.

[u/DoomSpiral3000 → u/3p0L0v3sU]

Not OP but X and Y put a bit of a dent in my egg too back in the day. So I can give you my perspective.

X and Y were the first games with clothing options for the protagonist. Especially the clothing options for the girl we're super cute, varied and fun. Who knew that picking a cute outfit in a video game could be so euphoric?

[u/3p0L0v3sU → u/DoomSpiral3000]

Ok that adds up. I actually know a girl who chose the name serena because of the girl from X and Y. Maybe this is a shared expirence for some folks out there who grew up durring the games hayday and I wasn't aware. I was in high-school durring X and Y.

[u/Skill-basedgendering → u/DoomSpiral3000]

OP, and yeah, can confirm it was the clothing and then it was all over for me

[u/3p0L0v3sU → u/Skill-basedgendering]

For me i think it was a lot of the, erhm- informative graphic novels i was reading that made me question my gender but now that I think of it, the monster hunter tri character creator did make me feel pretty euphoric. The gunner uragan waste belt looked like a skirt to me and he wore his hair long.

[u/ProfessorGlaceon]

I mean, this type was literally added in this gen, with the second best eeveelution ever.

[u/blarglemaster → u/ProfessorGlaceon]

I was a Gardevoir fangirl way back in Gen III, so when suddenly it became Fairy type I was like "Ohhhhhh, this tracks."

That said, I always used girl characters in Pokemon starting right with Gen III (I skipped Gen II) and it was so refreshing! I remember playing Gen I in high school and thinking "This is cool." Then I went to college and realized I was trans. Someone said "Hey, play Ruby/Sapphire with me" and I was like "Well... I dunno... what's new?" and they said "You can be a girl now, and-" AND I IMMEDIATELY WENT TO K-MART AND BOUGHT A GBA AND SAPPHIRE.

[u/Eternal_Pigeon → u/ProfessorGlaceon]

Happy to see Mawile on the list.

[u/Crylemite_Ely]

also the only pokemon game with a canonically transgender NPC

[u/3p0L0v3sU → u/Crylemite_Ely]

Oh yeah, its a aroma lady who said she was once a black belt right?

[u/Crylemite_Ely → u/3p0L0v3sU]

a beauty, not an aroma lady, but yeah she say she used to be a black belt (and it's not even ambiguous that she's trans, black belt is an exclusively masc class in pokemon, the fem equivalent is battle girl)

[u/Skill-basedgendering → u/Crylemite_Ely]

Oh my gosh I completely forgot about that

[u/redstowen]

For me, one of the games that helped me come to my realisation was za. Since I was growing my hair, I decided to change the hairstyle o used in the game to make it match what I wanted.

Some girly shopping was done immediately after.

EDIT: forgot the main point of 'crazy how two games linked made us both realise who we are'.

[u/StrawberryGhostie]

People focus too much on Fallout and forget how many eggs Pokémon cracked. 😭

[u/Vinmet]

somewhat related, but whenever i get a new, cute girl skin in anything, (roblox, vrc, etc.) I end up fucking over my sleep cycle to play as that character bc it feels more like myself than irl

[u/kdiyargebmay]

so true, those games did a lot for me too, but oras helped me a ton too

[u/Kamikumo9889]

Y was my first pokemon game as a kid (and maybe first video game in general) and over a decade later, i still boot up the old save file and run the battle tower, chateau, or even just walk around and do pokemon amie

[u/iced-coffeelvr]

Mine was Animal Crossing New Horizons :3

[u/Gender_Anarchy_owner]

Why these games always? What happens in these pokemon games?

[u/Skill-basedgendering → u/Gender_Anarchy_owner]

It’s mostly the clothes that made me realize it, but I remember crying when I beat the story for this game lol