I was interested to read this article and wondered if it's not a million miles away from what we do. We all have an alias and create an ideal self.
Maybe the gamers avatar is just a different way of expressing the same thing. Especially as I'm too old to play games!
Katie x
https://www.theguardian.com/games/2021/apr/24/in-the-game-i-knew-myself-as-hannah-the-trans-gamers-finding-freedom-on-roblox
I used to make Davina on Tiger woods golf and play as her lol. Notice a few of my youngests friends have fem characters always on fortnite.
Katie hi hope you’re well. Yes I can see the appeal even though gaming in general leaves me cold. I can imagine the frisson of satisfaction of seeing oneself present to others in the gender you want to inhabit and exhibit. Maybe it’s a useful stepping stone to the much more daunting process of going public as it were. (I’ve always viewed that process as a marker - if you can’t face the prospect of identifying full time as female then it’s most likely you’re best suited just to having a clandestine alias and that’s as far as it goes). x