Jennifer Diane Reitz (born December 30, 1959) is an American writer,

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author, and

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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' ''Boppin is a puzzle-oriented video game created by Jennifer Diane Reitz in 1991, developed under the company name Accursed Toys and published by Karmasoft for the Amiga computer with only 32 colors on screen. Around that time Karmasoft held a ...

''. 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

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s and co-founded a

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, Accursed Toys.Sawyer, Rachael (July 15, 2002). Game Review: Play God in "Black & White." University Wire Reitz is a

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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 reassignment ...

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.

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Unicorn Jelly
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Pastel Defender Heliotrope
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References

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Transsexual.org

Otaku World
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Interview at The Setup
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