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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Faolyn" data-source="post: 8683082" data-attributes="member: 6915329">This is very true. However, elves and dwarfs aren't human. There's two basic ways of going about creating D&D race. One way is to treat these beings as, basically, alien races. They happen to look very much like humans, have some interests in common, and can maybe even interbreed with them, but they're not human. They're aliens. There's no reason to assume they would feel the same way as humans do about anything.The second way is to treat these beings as mythical creatures. In this case, the race is actually a reflection of humans, or some aspect of humans. They're not really aliens with their own biology so much as the creation of storytelling. In this case, there's two options: (1) there's no reason to assume that they wouldn't feel the same way as humans do, unless it's necessary for the story (such as a race where the women are dominant and the men are second-class citizens). In this case sure, LGBT+ folks may very well have been or still are oppressed by the cishet majority, and thus use flags or codes to express themselves; or (2) they are vastly, magically different, such as deciding that all dwarfs are male and they reproduce by carving a new dwarf out of stone, or that all elves can switch between genders at will and simply don't have any sort of gender identity--it just depends on what bits they want to have at that moment in time.These are both perfectly valid interpretations, but they're also so different that you really need to establish how you're doing your worldbuilding before you decide how the races view LGBT+ people.Also true, but that's not what I was talking about. As others have said, there's no need for pride in something if that something wasn't oppressed. If dwarfs or elves or whatever have healthy attitudes about gender (especially if the society doesn't have distinct gender roles), then a nonbinary person or transgender person would likely have no real reason for an symbol. Now, if the society did have gendered modes of dress, then there would likely be an NB style of clothes to go along with the masculine and feminine styles, but that would be more style than a symbol. If a society does have distinct gender roles, then either transgender people would be disliked or would be simply adopted into the correct gender, depending on how you want to do it..</blockquote>

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