Meet the gamer who raised $400K for transgender rights in Texas

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A gamer raised $400 thousand for transgender rights in Texas by selling tabletop role-playing games. - NBCOUT

includes 493 games from 300 designers, and it’s on sale until April 3. It’s valued at more than $2,700 but is available through the fundraiser for $5.Just 45 minutes later, the fund met that goal. So they increased the goal to $5,000, and it was quickly surpassed again.

“When I first reached out to them, I was like, ‘Hey, we’re hoping to give you at least like $5K each,’ and now every time I email them, I’m like, ‘Hey, just an update, you’re getting $170,000 each now,’” they said, laughing. . Dickey said that they have two answers for why role-playing games are so popular among trans people in particular.

Tabletop role-playing games give trans people “the ability to be at our own table and centering ourselves in our stories and getting to play trans characters who the whole through line of their character isn’t that they’re trans, it’s just a part of who they are, and they still have dreams and goals and ambitions, and they’re a part of an adventuring party, they make a difference in the world,” they said.

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