Background
Reitz has created computer games and anime-style comics since 1981. Additionally, she writes game reviews and co-founded a family company, Accursed Toys. Her family company originally founded, then sold, the early games website Happy Puppy, which was, for a brief time, the most visited games site on the internet.
Reitz is also a transsexual woman who underwent sex reassignment surgery in 1982. Since her transition, she has lived in a polyamorous relationship with three spouses. She currently lives in Olympia, Washington and considers herself agnostic. Reitz identifies as bisexual, leaning toward lesbian.
Reitz created the COGIATI (Combined Gender Identity And Transsexuality Inventory), a prototype test for people who think they might qualify as pre-op, pre-transitional male-to-female transsexuals, but feel uncertain. She claims on her Transsexuality website that some medical professionals have adopted her prototype test instead of developing a better version, and she expresses mixed feelings about this. She cautions that the COGIATI has many flaws and is not a reliable test for diagnosing transsexualism/gender identity disorder.
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