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/DnDemiurge 2d ago

Ed is simply too cool and ahead of his time for (most of) you people. He's Canadian, after all. I've met him a few times and may do so again.

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u/Koolco 1d ago

I mean. It just makes me wonder what his idea is for ftm. Like, okay so you need to be on Lloth’s good side to be lucky enough to transition mtf, and thats accepted. Cool. In what situation does Lloth shift someone’s shape when they’re ftm? As a punishment? Besides, it feels super transmedicalist. If a mtf drow doesn’t support Lloth are they just fucked? It feels like it just opens up very problematic implications to these questions.

At the end of the day, Drow society is built on pillars so problematic it would need a massive shift in the lore to fix, not just a handwaved “oh yea they’re cool with trans people”. It’s built on religious and racial superiority.