In this Pride article, Rue Dickey discusses their experience with gender in TTRPGs and how they've learned to view gender as a performance and as a celebration of their queerness
Rue Dickey (they/he) is a mixed race (Indigenous, Romani, White), disabled, nonbinary trans man living on unceded Kalapuya lands in Oregon. They are a tabletop game designer, freelance writer, sensitivity consultant, and actual play performer. You can see his game design work independently on itch, or in Action Fiction's "Chromatic Gamut" or Gnome Made Games's "The Demiverse". Rue is passionate about making space for marginalized voices to tell our stories, and using TTRPGs as a vehicle for social change. Rue has done sensitivity consulting for a variety of projects, including ValiDate: Struggling Singles in Your Area.