[UPDATE] A longtime regular my tables called me a bit before the crack of dawn this morning to come out as trans. Happy Pride month!

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In short, she's doing very well all things considered. Her parents are both devout SBC Christians but her father enthusiastically accepted her and her mother is at least not actively unsupportive. They both suspected she was hiding something but were relieved she wasn't doing drugs or sneaking people in and out of her room out of wedlock. They say as long as she gets married to a Christian soon and gives them grandchildren they don't care.

Her siblings are similarly accepting but they've all reserved the right to make jokes about it.

What I'm particularly happy about is that when she came out to the rest of the table they were also highly supportive. I'm happy that out of all the people in her personal life to come out to first, she felt safe enough to tell me and was more eager than afraid to tell my players. Several of them come from thoroughly conservative backgrounds one way or the other. They visibly were a bit awkward but haven't treated her that much differently than before.

It's amusing since I remember years ago when I was a newb GM more than one of these same players said they didn't want any, "kendershit" or "freakshit" in their games. They expected me to be an SJW who'd attempt to indoctrinate them in Jesuit occultism or something along those lines. I'd always tell them that if they have any problems with the way I GM I'm always willing to talk about it and work a compromise since this was supposed to be fun for everyone, but in all things, be an adult.

With the benefit of hindsight I actually did kind of consciously and unconsciously make the NPC demographics more appealing to a broadly conservative demographic since I wanted to debunk any notion that I was forcing diversity on them. Yet as time went on I started gradually introducing themes and NPCs that subtly challenged the table's priors, myself included. I considered myself a center-conservative then and still generally do today but this year we've had a lot of LGBT and POC characters that we all talk about like family members.

Turns out, regardless of political compass position, generally people will grow attached to any character and roll with any narrative that's well planned and executed. People also generally are optimally able to explore the abstract parts of themselves and their existence through good storytelling. I don't think she'd feel safe coming out to them when she first started playing, so I'm happy that she feels so comfortable being trans around them these days. I guess the Chick tracts were wrong.