Sadras
Legend
That out of the way, I can only speak for myself, but if I was going to make a self-insert character for some reason, I would definitely make that character an AMAB trans woman just like I am. Being trans has had a huge impact on my life, and I am a different person as a direct result of being trans than I would be if I had been an AFAB cis woman. Any character that was meant to be my avatar in a fictional world would need to be trans to feel true to who I am. Being trans is as much a part of my identity as being a woman is.
Of course, I don’t really make self-insert characters (any more. I did more when I was younger, and most of them were cis men cause I hadn’t realized I was trans are that point in my life. Though I did on occasion create cis women that I didn’t frame as self-inserts at the time, but in retrospect totally were.) And the characters I make are all over the gender spectrum. I make cis men and women most often, but I also enjoy playing trans and new non-binary characters on occasion as well.
I'm curious, how/where does that impact play - playing a trans woman character as opposed to a cis woman character?
Okay I have just thought of something else - D&D games (I'm not necessarily speaking of published material) often elicit a medieval period along with the baggage that comes with that such as the ideologies and regressive culture practices that we would imagine at the time such as sexism, slavery, racism, religious extremism...etc. I would imagine a trans dressed character (i.e. male dressed in woman garb) could find pushback from the setting ideologue. In that instance I would imagine exception might be made. Yes, no maybe?
HOWEVER, having said that - the racism that has been explored at my table has not been black/white/asian but rather between the various playable races - so exclusions already exist or at least that have not been explored by our table.
EDIT: I have at my table, had NPCs verbally insult the PCs based on their race, faith, sex or garb - is gender forbidden?
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