Transgender Awareness Week ’22: Representation In Fighting Games

This piece is dedicated to all of the known fighting game characters who are hinted, confirmed, or believed to be part of the transgender community.

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It’s Transgender Awareness Week, which runs each year from November 13th until November 16th, which leads up to Transgender Day of Remembrance on November 20th. Transgender Awareness Week is designated to raise the visibility of transgender people and to talk about the many issues that the community faces on a regular basis. Transgender Day of Remembrance honors the memory of members of the transgender community who had lost their lives to anti-transgender violence.

This is an example of why representation is everything, which includes representation in the world of fighting games.

I dedicate this piece to all of the known fighting game characters who identify as transgender.

#1 — Poison

Poison is one of the most notable women in Street Fighter but she made her debut in the side-scrolling beat ’em up series, Final Fight…