Ned Wynert is a minor character in Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate and a London based transgender businessman. His background as a transgender man doesn’t really come up in-game aside from a look shared by Evie and Jacob Frye when they first meet up. Wynert primarily gives quests to the Frye twins, and the majority of their non-assassination missions are at his bidding. His backstory discusses how he spent much of his childhood secretly dressing as a boy and getting involved in the underground world of organized theft. Game developers of Syndicate have described Wynert’s trans identity as simply being another way for them to represent a diverse array of characters in the Assassins Creed universe.

LGBTQ references in this game series:

Assassin’s Creed (2007): Abu’l Nuqoud

Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood (2010): Leonardo da Vinci and Salaì

Assassin’s Creed III (2012): Harlan Cunningham and Arend Schut Cunningham

Assassin’s Creed: Unity (2014): Marquis de Sade, Chevalier d’Éon

Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate (2015): Jacob Frye, Maxwell Roth, Ned Wynert, Lewis

Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey (2018): Romance Options and Controversy

See QRM’s entry for this game. Citations

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4. Various. (n.d.). Assassins Creed Syndicate (Characters). TV Tropes Wiki. Retrieved from http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/AssassinsCreedSyndicateOtherCharacters