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<blockquote data-quote="pawsplay" data-source="post: 4254424" data-attributes="member: 15538">I'm particularly baffled by the indication in RoE that the choice of gender, once made, cannot be changed. First of all, that assumes they have an &quot;actual&quot; gender, which I find questionable. In fact, it seems to posit that there is an essential masculine and an essential feminine, which I find a little sexist. Second, gender is not that immutable even in humans; a small but measurable number of humans decide they are the &quot;wrong&quot; gender or go through periods of gender confusion. Third, there are no biological drives that require the warforged to take on a particular reproductive role; to a warforged, a choice of gender would be explicitly nothing more than a personal choice. I used to be a long-haired metalhead, now I'm a short-haired post-punk; I imagine a warforged could change gender as easily if not moreso. I would really like to ask the person who wrote that sentence, &quot;Why?&quot;Is there some secret history, where it turns out the warforged are stolen souls of humanoids or something?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pawsplay, post: 4254424, member: 15538"] I'm particularly baffled by the indication in RoE that the choice of gender, once made, cannot be changed. First of all, that assumes they have an "actual" gender, which I find questionable. In fact, it seems to posit that there is an essential masculine and an essential feminine, which I find a little sexist. Second, gender is not that immutable even in humans; a small but measurable number of humans decide they are the "wrong" gender or go through periods of gender confusion. Third, there are no biological drives that require the warforged to take on a particular reproductive role; to a warforged, a choice of gender would be explicitly nothing more than a personal choice. I used to be a long-haired metalhead, now I'm a short-haired post-punk; I imagine a warforged could change gender as easily if not moreso. I would really like to ask the person who wrote that sentence, "Why?" Is there some secret history, where it turns out the warforged are stolen souls of humanoids or something? [/QUOTE]

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