{"id":2168,"date":"2015-09-27T16:18:53","date_gmt":"2015-09-27T21:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=2168"},"modified":"2015-09-27T16:18:53","modified_gmt":"2015-09-27T21:18:53","slug":"developers-announce-assassins-creed-video-game-series-to-include-first-trans-character","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/2168","title":{"rendered":"Developers announce &#8220;Assassin&#8217;s Creed&#8221; video game series to include first trans character"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By John Mack Freeman<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The long-running video game series?<em>Assassin&#8217;s Creed?<\/em>will introduce its first trans character with its next installment. The character, Ned Wynert, is a trans male who is a non-playable character that will be one of several that gives quests to the main character. Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinknews.co.uk\/2015\/09\/25\/assassins-creed-to-add-first-transgender-character\/\">PinkNews<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Developers Ubisoft have also updated Assassin?s Creed?s opening statement for the first time since the first game?s release in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>The message states that each game was ?designed, developed and produced by a multicultural team of various religious faiths and beliefs.?<\/p>\n<p>Ubisoft?s decision marks a leap forward for inclusivity in the popular gaming series.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Mack Freeman The long-running video game series?Assassin&#8217;s Creed?will introduce its first trans character with its next installment. The character, Ned Wynert, is a trans male who is a non-playable character that will be one of several that gives quests to the main character. Via PinkNews: Developers Ubisoft have also updated Assassin?s Creed?s opening [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":2169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,57],"tags":[388,389,391,390],"class_list":["post-2168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-columns","category-media-of-note","tag-assassins-creed","tag-glbt-representation","tag-ubisoft","tag-video-game"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}