These Nintendo Characters are Canonically Transgender or Nonbinary
…because The Legend of Zelda made me trans.
7 min readJun 13, 2018
I’ve been saying it for years — if you love the Zelda games, you aren’t cis. The series is packed to the gills with beautifully androgynous characters, tough, masculine women, feminine, graceful men, and people who switch their gender presentation for reasons either strategic or personal. At times, the gender-bending and transitioning is acknowledged outright; other times it is implied by character design or clothing and mannerisms.