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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 7438451" data-attributes="member: 6779196">Everything is political, so I don’t see your point here.*transgender. *intersexThat’s actually not one of the definitions of the word ordinary. I chose that word very intentionally, as it means “with no special or distinctive features; normal” or “not interesting or exceptional; commonplace.” Transgender folks are by no means a majority, but we are a natural and perfectly normal part of life. Getting the cisgender majority to accept that, though, is a process that’s going to take time. It’s working though. I’ve seen huge strides made in my lifetime.*TransgenderNot as tiny as you might think. Recent estimates put us at 0.5-0.6% of the population in America, and those estimates are almost certainly too low, as a significant portion of us are not openly trans, and a significant portion may not have realized it. As with non-hetero folks, the more it becomes accepted in mainstream culture, the more people start coming out and the more people who had never questioned their sexuality start realizing they might not be strictly hetero. Certainly we’re not a majority, but we are more commonplace than you think we are, and we are a normal part of life.*transgender *transgender *trans peopleAs a transgender person: it is not insulting to be treated as ordinary as in mundane; we are. It would not insulting to be treated as the majority, though it would be very strange since we’re not, by a longshot. What is insulting is when people try to pretend they’re accepting and welcoming, but still try to treat us as aberrant. Feeling different is not hard. It’s the easiest thing in the world; I’ve always been different and proud of it. What’s hard is being treated as if being different makes me wrong.*trans personHang on, how is that the way you treat any other gamer? Do you not present people who like the fantasy genre with an option which has been crafted to appeal to them? Do you not let Harry Potter fans play wizards? Do you not let men play male characters and women play female characters? Do you ban the human PC race?Like I said, I don’t much care how you as an individual introduce your children to the game. Fortunately, you’re not the only person introducing young people to the hobby, and plenty are finding their way to it on their own.*genderIndeed, it’s not. It’s a part of one’s identity.You believe whatever you want to believe. I’m going to continue helping the society I live in to move towards accepting and embracing people regardless of their identities.Assuming D&D is your rpg of choice, I’d say it’s a little late for that. It’s alread in. You certainly have the option as a consumer and a gamer not to support D&D, and to find some other game that doesn’t treat trans folks as normal if that’s the rock you want to live under. But the industry as a whole is progressing, like it or not. Exalted 3rd Edition has a trans character on the cover. World and Chronicles of Darkness regularly include trans and nonbinary example characters and have been doing so for well over a decade. More and more indie RPGs are making steps like putting separate lines on their character sheet for sex and for gender, or including a line for preferred pronouns. Progress takes time, but little by little the places you’ll be able to go to keep pretending being trans isn’t perfectly normal will get smaller and smaller.</blockquote>

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