Psychologist Warns Nintendo Character ‘Normalising’ Gender Fluidity Among Kids

Published on May 30, 2024

The revelation that a character in a popular Nintendo video game is a transgender has been criticised for being a subtle attempt to normalise gender fluidity among younger individuals. Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, was released last week for the Switch platform, and is a remake of the popular GameCube edition of the same name from 2004. In the original Japanese version of the game, there is some ambiguity around the gender of a purple-coloured witch character named Vivian, who is teased for looking like a man, while the English version does not allude to this at all. However, in the 2024 English language remake, Vivian, one of three sisters, is revealed to be a male-to-female trans....

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