Long Live Birdo, Trans Icon

There are few video game dinosaurs more glamorous than Birdo –– or Birdetta, as she prefers to be known –– the canonically trans icon of Nintendo’s Super Mario franchise.Birdetta made her official debut in the 1988 release Super Mario Bros 2, appearing as the egg-spitting enemy of everyone’s favorite cartoon plumber. In the decades since, she’s had a noteworthy glow-up. In an archived commercial, she oozes old-school Hollywood glamour, her hot pink body perched seductively on a chaise longue

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