Will you make transsexual Elves canon in your games ?

[BookBarbarian]

Reminds me of that episode of "Community".

Oh internet, you never disappoint: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODgu_-rR1X8

Ah Hector the Well Endowed.

I think the seeds of HarmonQuest were planted in this episode.

 

[Gradine]

EDIT: this is also the first time I noticed [MENTION=57112]Gradine[/MENTION] lives in Arcata, I used to live there!

Technically I'm in McKinleyville now, but I work at the university so I haven't really bothered to change it. We might be moving back soon though.

 

[Sunseeker]

Technically I'm in McKinleyville now, but I work at the university so I haven't really bothered to change it. We might be moving back soon though.

Heh, the guy who got me to love D&D lives in McKinleyville.

 

[Bagpuss]

This understanding of being anywhere on the spectrum helps real-life players who seek to *appear* as a trans man or a trans woman, especially with regard to secondary sexual characteristics.

Forgive me if I misunderstand you on this sensitive issue, but none of the trans-people I've spoken to want to *appear* as trans men or trans women, they would prefer to "pass" and appear as, and be treated as, a man or a woman. Now admittedly their are internet personalities that make a big thing about being trans, but most would rather not have the attention and would happy "pass". I think it is pretty dangerous to apply any of this to real-life trans people, as many have issues with "passing" since their isn't some magical switch.

 

[epithet]

I suppose it was inevitable that people would get all politicky about this, but I don't see it that way. An elf with this trait isn't "transsexual," it is your basic female today (able to bear live offspring,) and your basic male tomorrow (able to impregnate a female.) At no point does that elf necessarily get complicated about it.

The one thing I'd need to figure out if a player wanted to have this trait would be what would happen if the character were pregnant and decided to wake up male the next day. That would be complicated.

I don't think the trait is very interesting as-is. I'd be inclined to make it a racial feat that would let the elf wake up with a sub-race and gender of its choice. That gets interesting.

 

[Zardnaar]

Unless things are very different in New Zealand from what I've heard, the prospects of a police or miliatry-led coup would be close to zero. And the Queen would not endorse it were it to happen. (I'm not sure that she would reject it either. She might stand aloof, as she did during the constitutional crisis in Australia.) The Queen's role is to appoint the Governor-General on the advice of the Prime Minister. That's it. Whether the Governor-General would support a coup would of course depend on the local political situation at the time.

No the Queen actually has a lot of constitutional power here. The only one she uses is to reopen parliament. The governor general can fire the prime minister and I think she can dissolve parliament as well.

She never uses her power but theoretically she can stop the rise of say a fascist government. If her use of the power was not popular, I imagine we would become a republic fairly quickly. The police/armed forces would not launch a coup but say there was a minority government that convinced some stupid minor party to coalition with them and turn the country into a dictatorship in theory she can dissolve parliament and fire the Prime Minister via the governor general. If they refused to go legally the Police (independent of parliament) could arrest them and new elections would be called.

In practice it would depend on how popular the current prime minster would be and if the Police would choose sides, collude or do nothing. Technically we are a constitutional monarchy (we have no constitution). The armed forces are supposed to be loyal to the governor general not the government.

 

[Gradine]

Forgive me if I misunderstand you on this sensitive issue, but none of the trans-people I've spoken to want to *appear* as trans men or trans women, they would prefer to "pass" and appear as, and be treated as, a man or a woman. Now admittedly their are internet personalities that make a big thing about being trans, but most would rather not have the attention and would happy "pass". I think it is pretty dangerous to apply any of this to real-life trans people, as many have issues with "passing" since their isn't some magical switch.

Neither case is particularly universal to the modern trans experience. I would say that I personally have met more trans-identified individual who don't give a flying f--- about "passing" than I have those that do. I would imagine that a significant number of trans men and trans women who do concern themselves with "passing" probably wouldn't even self-identify as "trans", at least not in public, though their reasons for doing so are also pretty varied (they might consider themselves a cis-gendered individual who was born with wrong biological sex, for instance, or any number of other reasons related to societal guilt and shame; or even fear; on average more than two trans individuals are murdered every month in the U.S., and some states still allow so-called "trans panic" defenses to be used in trials).

Again, the most important thing I can caution against is any assumption that there is some kind of universal "trans" experience.

 

[Bagpuss]

a cis-gendered individual who was born with wrong biological sex

That is an contradiction. Since cis is someone whose identity and gender matches their birth sex. Did you mean straight, rather than cis, or did you mean to convey something else?

 

[TheCosmicKid]

Or a Changeling who doesn’t consider their “true” form to be who they really are.

The way I've played changeling characters in the past, seeing their natural form is like seeing them full-frontal naked. And they change identity as they change physical form -- name, gender, personality, the whole shebang. Even when they're e.g. disguising themselves as a bad guy, they adopt the identity of that bad guy, who just happens to be helping the party at the moment.

Although this character was a psion, so the mental changes could have had something to do with that as well.

 

[TheCosmicKid]

That is an contradiction. Since cis is someone whose identity and gender matches their birth sex. Did you mean straight, rather than cis, or did you mean to convey something else?

It doesn't line up with the standard definition of "cis", but I bet there are people out there who identify that way. Some people say they are "straight men who prefer sex with men", too.