Guild Wars 2

Thank you OP, and thank you ANet!

I didn’t join until a little later (around Diessa) but I had a lot of fun with the event. <3

As a trans person myself, I will tell you all that representation matters so much.

It means that we’re not being ignored or swept under the rug as something too hideous or “upsetting” to include. It means we’re human too, and that we’re worth thinking about.

Seeing Jory and Kass get a story part meant so much to me as a lesbian. It meant that we weren’t just objects to be fawned over, we weren’t just fetish points – We were heroes too. Caithe and Faolin’s story arc broke my heart on the other hand, because it fell into a lot of bad tropes and issues that a lot of other media falls into that tells us that we can’t have happy endings or that our relationships are toxic, etc.

I’d love to see more trans NPCs. It means so much to me, and to a lot of other trans people. It means we’re wanted and that we exist in these fantasy worlds where we get shunned out a lot. Look at some of the replies to the thread, for example. People saying they’d stop playing if there were more trans representation. It’s a way of telling us that we’re completely unwanted.

So when a company does include us, especially in spite of that negativity, it means a lot.