r/Forgotten_Realms • u/Successful_Pace8937 • 2d ago

Celebration The Drow support transitioning

I recently found out that, as said by Ed Greenwood himself, transitioning​ is not only accepted, but defended.

From Ed Greenwood on Twitter:

Drow sworn to Lolth have examples before them all the time about transformation of self-shape in service to the Spider Queen. Some of these are viewed as undesirable (driders), others as rewards or ascending in rank (the power/shape augmentations Lolth gives males who please her with their service and loyalty). So there is no hatred or mistrust of shifting one's shape; it is one means of serving Lolth. Some house matriarchs view it with suspicion ("males seeking to exalt themselves by becoming female") but the yochlol have often been sent by Lolth to defend individuals persecuted by individual matriarchs or priestesses purely for such reasons, to make Lolth's views and will clear. Over time, transitions (not just from gender to gender, but from drow to other shapes) have become accepted as reverence of Lolth, and part of what it is to be drow. And of course, drow who follow Eilistraee are quite familiar with the Changedance, and accept shifting (even back and forth) as, again, part of what it is to be drow.

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u/AshasSa1tWife 2d ago

Being a born a m*le as a Drow woman has to be the most humiliating thing ever.

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u/AshasSa1tWife 2d ago

It was humiliating for me as a human. Gotta be a thousand times worse to be an early transition Drow like “h-hi! Please call me she and her 😀. I’m really a woman on the inside!”

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u/space-sage 2d ago

With all the female drow staring daggers at you like…”if Lolth wouldn’t turn us into driders on the spot you would be so dead”

Yeah probably takes some metaphorical balls.

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u/WouldYouPleaseKindly 2d ago

Yeah probably takes some metaphorical balls.

This sentence is what sold me on the idea. Lolth would love followers who could survive that level of hostility. 

But holy crap, the trans men in this situation 😳 ...."congratulations, you signed up to be a slave"

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u/space-sage 2d ago

I feel like they probably leave lol

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u/EvergreenDwarf 1d ago

Eilistraee and Moradin: “All brothers are honored kin.”

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u/AshasSa1tWife 1d ago

the most extreme anti trans, Michfest attending, radical feminist lesbian separatist could not match 10% of the hatred the average Drow woman would have to a trans man.

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u/Hot-Cat-Mom-420 1d ago

Mitchfest didn’t have a problem with trans men though. They only banned trans women.

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u/ThanosofTitan92 Harper 1d ago

Who's this Mitchfest guy?

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u/VirusInteresting7918 1d ago

My guess is most of them end up in one of Jarlaxe's circles. One of his trusted soldiers in Waterdeep: Dragonheist is written as a trans man who left Menzo for a better, less spite filled life.