Willow Wilson is a transgender woman in her mid-20s. She spoke about the role – no pun intended – that Dungeons & Dragons has played in her transition.

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Willow Wilson: There is essentially there is like a line graph, I would say, of the characters that I’ve played in the past.

The first character I ever played was a human male fighter because I was like, “This seems easy,” and then later, I went with a non-binary, very flamboyant, like, “Oh, darling” type tiefling character who used they/them pronouns, which were the pronouns I use at that time.

Then I immediately went to – the last character I played before the current game was a human woman, she/her.

And then the current character I'm playi

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