Jennifer Diane Reitz (born December 30, 1959) is an American writer,
webcomic
Webcomics (also known as online comics or Internet comics) are comics published on a website or mobile app. While many are published exclusively on the web, others are also published in magazines, newspapers, or comic books.
Webcomics can be c ...
author, and
game designer. She is known for the website Happy Puppy, which she opened with her partners, Stephen P. Lepisto and Sandra Woodruff,
and with whom she created the video game ''
Boppin'''. Reitz has also done game work for
Interplay.
On February 14, 1995 Reitz and her partners launched the game website Happy Puppy where they posted game demos.
For a period of time, the website was the most visited game website on the Internet and had about 2.5 million downloads per month during 1996, the same year Happy Puppy was acquired by Attitude Network.
The website later went offline in 2006. Reitz writes game
review
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s and co-founded a
family company, Accursed Toys.
[Sawyer, Rachael (July 15, 2002). Game Review: Play God in "Black & White." University Wire]
Reitz is a
trans woman
A trans woman or a transgender woman is a woman who was assigned male at birth. Trans women have a female gender identity, may experience gender dysphoria, and may transition; this process commonly includes hormone replacement therapy and s ...
and the founder of the site Transsexuality (transsexual.org), a site with general information on
transsexualism
Transsexual people experience a gender identity that is inconsistent with their assigned sex, and desire to permanently transition to the sex or gender with which they identify, usually seeking medical assistance (including sex reassignmen ...
that hosts the COGIATI (COmbined Gender Identity And Transsexuality Inventory) test.
The test has been criticized for relying on stereotypical views of gender; it assumes, for example, that a lack of interest in mathematics is a feminine trait.
Webcomics
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Unicorn Jelly'
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Pastel Defender Heliotrope'
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References
External links
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Transsexual.orgOtaku World*
Interview at The Setup
1959 births
Living people
American agnostics
American webcomic creators
Female comics writers
American LGBT artists
LGBT comics creators
People from Baker City, Oregon
Transgender artists
Transgender women
American female comics artists
American transgender writers
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