Gender-swapping has been a common theme in fictions/legend for as long as we had these. And my hot-take is that RPG didn’t started to attract LGBT player in the last decade, but society didn’t let these player be open with themselves before the last decade, and that some of these players who in the 80’s/90’s/00’s used gender swapping as a theme in their stories would actually come-out/transition if they were 20-30-40 years longer.
Pretty sure Elminster also trans’d at least once.
When you live that long, you do lots of stuff.
[[Alesha, Who Smiles at Death|FRF]] was printed in 2015, and is trans
I don’t know the lore. Reading the wiki page, it looks like he used to be genderfluid, but now is generally male. And it sounds like he’s a god that can just naturally change sex, so he’s cis-genderfluid. Which I guess means now he’s trans?
Genderfluid is not cis, therefore trans.
Cis just means your gender matches your sex, right? If your sex is fluid, and you’re cis, what gender would that be?
Cisgender means not transgender. Those are binary antonyms.
If you change your gender from what it was assigned at birth, you are transgender and therefore not cisgender.
To complicate things, if you are transgender, you were never cis.
None of this has anything to do with genitals other than that is generally one of the main inputs the doctor who assigns your gender at birth uses. It’s like being assigned white or black upon birth by a doctor, they just use their best guess and often take liberties and sometimes even make changes and those changes turn out to be wrong… They should not be making assumptions or decisions or changes unless strictly necessary, which they are often not.
So a god whose existence at birth is fluid, would be, like the rest of us, whatever they were. But, for ease of language, likely fall under they/them, depending on reference purpose, like a wiki or their own desired image or role.
You would have to ask them.
Just like everybody else.
When in doubt, just ask.
In general, though, I think most gods are above gender, as gender is a human social construct and gods are… Well, those things are dumb and don’t apply because gods usually don’t give a shit and don’t play by your silly little self imposed made up rules like who makes house and who works and who is more courageous and who proposes or whatever garbage.
Nope, cis mean you did not changed your gender, it has nothing to do with your genitals. Corellon change gender quite a lot.
So if you have a male body, but your gender is and has always been female, you’re cis?
I see what you try to do, but again : gender has nothing to do with your genitals/body.
Gender is a social construct and thus, it’s difficult to say “always”, that’s why there was terms like AMAB/AFAB in the first place : you are not born with a gender, you have been assigned with one to begin with. Hence the change. Trans is not just about your body, but also about how everyone and the society percieve you (that’s why you have multiple type of coming out).
And fluidity is a constant change, not a gender. There is nothing cisgender about changing gender, by definition.My understanding is that gender is how you think of yourself. If you consider yourself to be a man, then regardless of what society says, you’re a man. They can’t simply assign you the gender of woman. The terms AMAB and AFAB are referring to your sex, not your gender.
Trans is not just about your body, but also about how everyone and the society percieve you (that’s why you have multiple type of coming out).
So if someone was born male, and thinks of themselves as female, but they haven’t told anyone, would you say that they’re cisgender because the gender society perceives them as matches their birth sex?
It’s not whatever the society say : trans only have sense if you have a gendered society. That’s what “social construct” means, this is also why it don’t apply to all cultures.
A fluid identity might not be “trans” in a society when there is no question of gender, but you won’t call that being “genderfluid”, as having a “locked” gender may seems weird to them. Maybe they won’t even have a word for it. But it’s still won’t be cis, either.
And elven culture here is binary gendered, hence the changes Corellon do.
