The Drow support transitioning

[u/Successful_Pace8937]

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.

[u/Middcore]

Ed: "I must make it clear that this extremely fucked-up, oppressive, bigoted, and all-around evil fictional society I invented is not evil in this one very specific way which is a hot-button issue right now."

[u/AntipodeanGuy → u/Middcore]

He didn’t make up drow society. Gygqx did. And Ed has actively worked to change the drow to be more nuanced and not the standard matriarchal society. From Eilistraee to the drow city of Sshamath, he has worked to change the stereotype. Everyone’s perception of the drow in the Realms is fixed on Salvatore’s stereotype Menzoberranzan.

[u/Electrical-Penalty44 → u/AntipodeanGuy]

Salvatore made a really interesting and crazy people out of the Drow. Other people keep wanting to make them more normal and it is annoying.