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Daring Champion Cavalier gives you finesse for free, martial weapons, and Order of the Blossom will give you 1d6 sneak attack at first level. That archetype also gives up the mount. A small hit in skill ranks, but that might be worth it.

Succubus synchronizes really nicely with Ninja, especially for self-healing. Swift action invisibility, sneak attack Vampiric Touch, teleporting at will... It makes for a powerful character, depending on exactly how redeemed you want the succubus to be.

Decided against going to the party, but hung out with a group of people from my college's LGBTQ alliance and cooked lots of food.

I've been quite happy with my friends, lately. It's gotten to the point where my friends will correct other people on my pronouns- makes it a lot easier for me, since I get really anxious to correct other people. Making progress :D

Does anyone know any fantasy literature with LGBTQ protags? I've been looking for some!

It's not purely fantasy, but Ursula LeGuin's Left Hand of Darkness is a classic and deals a lot with gender.

Otherwise, definitely second the Goodreads option. Here's a list they have of fantasy books with gay protagonists, at least--not sure if they break it down further from there. There's also a reading group for LGBT fantasy as well, available here.

It also depends on what you mean by 'rights.' For many asexuals, it may not be as severe--a lot of what we've seen in this thread is more about erasure than other overt forms of oppression. But erasure can lead to other, more potentially serious areas, such as corrective rape (which yes, is a thing, and is exactly as horrific as you would expect). When we don't see a thing or have a context in which to appreciate that thing, it can lead to some really awful reactions should we encounter it.

Other issues are the still-recent declassification of asexuality as a mental disorder, but even still it is often conflated with Hyposexual Desire Disorder (HDD), which is still a diagnosis assigned. This may not sound severe, but for many, having any kind of mental diagnosis can lead to difficulty obtaining/keeping a job, a home, and things like that.

Erasure is both a sympton and cause of greater oppression--and it's the one we as individuals can also most easily tackle, instead of the institutionalized desire for sex we see in advertising, media, the works.

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Advice: Just say they're agender when the party meets them. Distracted players seem to unconsciously assign binary genders to ambiguous characters (this goes for GM-players like me as well), so you gotta head that off as soon as possible.

That's because it's normal to unconsciously do that. Agender is a very small deviation from the norm that most people rarely, if ever, encounter in any meaningful fashion, and many languages have not only gendered pronouns, but gendered nouns as well (French, for example).

When you introduce a character, it's going to be a little weird to list "You see who you have been told is Lieutenant Ayar waiting to show you to your place at the battlements. They are human, about 5 and a half feet tall, wearing well-polished half-plate armour, and they have a well-kept scimitar in a scabbard at their hip. They have medium length brown hair, green eyes, and OH BY THE WAY THIS CHARACTER IS AGENDER SO GET THE PRONOUNS RIGHT. They greet you amicably with a raised hand, a nod, and a smile."
Any good roleplayer is going to respond with "How does my character know that they're agender? Did the Guard Captain tell us? Is that a common thing in this area?"
Just let the conversation flow naturally, and if the NPC needs to correct them, they do so. The other NPCs in the area may know the character, but the party doesn't. I can't imagine simple polite clarification is unusual for real-life agender people. Alternatively, depending on the location, one of the NPC's friends may inform the party before they meet them. This would work well if the NPC in question would be too shy to make a correction themself.

How about:

We have these kinds of conversations all the time. Introduce someone with the information available (even if we're the ones who wrote it), and check when we get questions. In this case, you don't need a concrete reason for your player to know it. Your GM has told you. It's not as if you need concrete evidence that the person you're talking to is male or female, either--the GM mentions it, probably with a 'he' or 'she' pronoun, and so you take it as face value. This is the same thing.

Hello!

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I really want to go out to a party this weekend that I was invited to in femme clothing, but I'm also a little bit afraid of being on the streets at night like that. Does anyone have any advice?

Big coats. It's cold, after all, and who doesn't secretly long to do the whole "take off the coat and BAM" thing.

Also, I'm new to the thread and suppose I should say hi? Robin here--Venture Agent for PFS in Olympia, Washington. Nonbinary (neutrois) trans intersex queer (gray-ace, poliro) pinko commie educator.

So I have some new thoughts about gender and gender identity that I would like to express just to get some responses.

I feel like the idea of male/female gender identity versus an agender identification really gets at the idea of defying stereotypes of each gender. When I hear the idea of someone saying they are agender, what I hear is "I don't subscribe to the sterotypes of being male or female".

And if that is the case then I think that's all well and good. I think sterotyping people into certain types of behavior based on things like gender isn't useful as no one would fit all those sterotypes. Of course, people do sterotype everyone as it's human nature it probably can't be avoided or eliminated. However, I would prefer the concept of gender as a construct of social behavior attached to those words not exist at all.

For me, I try to only think of male/female and man/woman in terms of what it means as a biological characteristics, since those things can be relevant in different situations.

Maybe I'm missing the point of it all.

In the interest of not cluttering this particular thread any further, I won't respond here, but if it's something you are interested in learning more about (and how it can manifest biologically and socially across people and cultures in the real world), PM me. I can certainly answer some questions, at least, and provide some real-world specifics.

@Robin-Sidh: i love the ideas the suggestions you gave! I really want to play a transman changeling now :3

Also: the Reign of Winter AP has a lesbian couple, where one of the women is trans (she transitioned due to the power Baba Yaga's womanhood). I also love Arshea- in fact, many of the Empyreal Lords don't have a specified gender, which I love!

Thanks! The best part of constants is finding out what breaks them--and adventurers should be ones breaking the mold, so why not transmasculine Changelings? And Arshea is the absolute best.

Here are some suggestions for you and your player for ways they can make the character's gender identity an important characteristic while also being largely a roleplaying aspect which can come up or not as needed. I'll note that all my characters are nonbinary, like myself, so this may be more general than specifically agender, but much of it can be adapted to meet the specific gender in question.

1. Worshipper of Arshea. Arshea is a NG Empyreal Lord of freedom, physical beauty and sexuality. Arshea is depicted as male and female alike, embodying the most attractive physical aspects of the aforementioned genders, but always shown as androgynous. Almost like Desire of the Endless but with less wanton cruelty.

2. Dwarven Rivethun. The Rivethun are specifically Dwarven transfeminine individuals who keep the ancient lore. Shardra, the iconic Shaman, is an example. They fill a similar role as Two-Spirit individuals in many Indigenous American cultures--their role is to lead the cultural and spiritual development of their people, but they typically hold no allegiance to the Dwarven pantheon, instead revering the stone itself. Do they not want to play a Dwarf? What about someone with the "Adopted" trait, who was abandoned on the mountain and found by a Rivethun matron? Perhaps they're not Rivethun themself, but what happens to a child raised without heavy emphasis placed on being male or female?

3. Changelings are always assigned female, but that doesn't mean they have to actually be women. Hags are matriarchal, after all, and value femaleness. What happens to a Changeling who transitions, or an agender Changeling who feels no connection to gender at all?

4. Faegender comes up in fantasy settings sometimes, especially among fey-oriented races like gnomes or elves. It's a gender which literally changes with the seasons, often incorporating aspects we associate with them, such as more masculine in autumn/winter and more feminine in spring/summer. I have a faegender gnome actually, and fae is my favorite character to play--it fits in with the gnomish love of change so well, and just really works with the character.

Thank you to Crystal and the rest of the Paizo staff for this. Representation matters, and I've been asked to leave more than a few gaming groups for being non-binary and expressing it. My current group in Asheville, NC has been nothing but welcoming, and seeing this just reminds me how much things have changed in the past few years.

Kudos to you from this MOGII member, and a hearty thanks from this genderqueer.

I'm trying to register my Pathfinder Society characters, but each time I try, I get the message that the Avatar Name is already in use. I'm logged in to the same account I'm in now--I only have the one account. I have one character whose name has been accepted, however it's thrown off my character numbers. My characters I've played are registered in my sessions by my GMs, but I can't seem to register them in my player menu. Any help?