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You know, real talk, Pokemon has probably played an important early role in cracking a huge number of eggs.
The "are you a boy or a girl?" question got some people asking themselves the same thing since it was likely the first time it'd actually become a question posed at them instead of just being told what the answer is, and I'm sure that for a lot of people, choosing to play a character outside their own assignment was when they first dipped their toes into the ocean of daring to be what the world hadn't decided they were when (or likely before) they were born. Genderless Pokemon were also (unintentionally) millions of kids' first introduction to anything resembling anything outside the binary.
Too bad for a lot of fans that the only canon trans character in the whole series is that one beauty in the Battle Maison, and even that got changed to be much more of an ambiguous situation in the English translation.
Anyways I'm probably going to shift-click this thread now for the sake of my sanity, having fun taking it to over 400 replies because you can't find any butterscotch pudding on the moon, smarty-pants.
