Good morning, this was previously the Trans Day of Visibility thread, but moderation merged it with the subsequent LGBTQIA+ thread — that thread starts here:
Trans Day of Visibility
As the title suggests, March 31 is the Transgender Day of Visibility and consequently I am hoping that all my fellow trans and/or genderqueer comrades on the server are living their best lives!
Speaking for myself and for many people I’ve come to know in roleplay, both on Argent Dawn and elsewhere, the hobby has been an incredibly important place to explore personal identity among likeminded and understanding people. Roleplay as a vehicle for self-understanding and acceptance honestly can’t be understated – it’s something we should all prize and appreciate, whether we’re trans or cis, queer or not.
Days like this should also go to show that trans people exist and will continue to exist in both hobby spaces and in the ‘real’ world. That can’t be changed. It’s also a reminder that there’s still a lot of work to be done to make Argent Dawn a fully welcoming place; there are still 'phobes and the ignorant – and we should never let their voices become the norm. Roleplay is–and should be–for everyone.
If anyone would like to post stories or anecdotes relating to their own experiences as a trans person on AD, I’d love to read them.
Happy Trans Visibility Day to my trans siblings in the community!
As a CIS person I can’t possibly begin to understand what it must feel like to navigate today’s social and political climate, on and off the realm, but I do promise that I will do my best to keep fostering safe spaces through our shared hobby.
If anyone did decide to make mean spirited comments, all they’d be doing is validating my point that Argent Dawn still needs to move beyond toxic prejudices. For the most part, I’m confident that the AD forums are a socially conscious place (can’t say the same for the rest of the WoW forums but we take what we can get).
If this were go up on GD 100% you’d have the word “woke” and barely-obscured transphobia within the first three posts (though I also think you would see some pushback to that, there is a greater acceptance for queer folk in gaming circles than there was a few years ago)
That being said the existence of the first group of people I referred to alongside the trans erasure going on within a certain first world country at the moment does also mean that we should continue to make noise for queer folk across the board. Progress is being made but it feels like it’s far too easy for some of the worst people on the planet to either halt it or even reverse it.
Edit for a quick thing: Vaxir could be considered trans in a way, more agender if anything, she/it/whatever (I default she; she doesn’t care how you refer to her lol). As just a simple war machine, she really doesn’t ‘get’ or care for gender or whatever related and doesn’t view herself as anything, either. Aroace beasty.
I came out years ago in 2015, myself. Now I’m living my proper, authentic life, and I’ve never been happier!
Re. whoever else has been mass flagged by the transphobes unwilling to actually show themselves, I wouldn’t worry. The posts will all be restored by moderation since there’s nothing wrong with them.
It doesn’t make trans rights and the place of trans people on AD and WoW any less true or visible.
Takes a special kind of idiot to abuse the report system like this, hopefully whoever it is grows up eventually and decides to take some self reflection.
