gaming Question about changing Xbox avatar

[PinkiePieJr 122]

We just recently got internet at our house, and I connected my xbox 360 to a live account (free for now), and since all that was changing, one thing I wanted to change as well. I've wanted to do so for a while, but I didn't know if it was safe.

 

What I want is to just change my avatar. I'd rather have a girl avatar, and should have made a girl one when I first got the xbox. Well, I know you can just go to edit avatar, and select the create new avatar button, which is what I'm assuming I'd have to do. However, here's the reason as to why I didn't do that. If I make a new avatar, I'm afraid it will make a new "account" so to speak. Restart all my awards, achievements, saved games, gamertag, basically evertything. So I'm wondering to those who would know, does making a new avatar, make you loose all those things, cuz I'm not sure all that I've worked for is worth loosing to about what gender an avatar is. If it doesn't do anthing, but actually change the avatar, and all acheivements are still there, great, and i'll do it. But I wanna be safe first.

[Twilight The Creator 298]

I'm pretty sure you can change gender without making a whole new one.

However, if you still make a new one it won't make a new account. It just resets your avatar, and doesn't have anything to with your actual account.

[Puddlejumper 1,649]

It will only change your avatar, your account achievements and all that will still be there. Your old avatar gets replaced with the new one, that's it.