Hi! I'm writing fanfic between my Githyanki Tav, and I wrote in his lore that he's ftm. I actually used one of your posts to write part of it! I was wondering if you think a ghustil would handle transition surgery, or if their's a small offshoot of ghustils just for that. Your posts seem thoughtful and well-informed, so I thought I'd ask your opinion!
Ahhh anon thank you so much for letting me know I'm so touched and honoured my posts and HC/lore have helped you in writing your OC and his story !! I hope you're having a lot of fun <33
As for how githyanki would do something like transition:
there's a few ways I think about and veins you could go. I'll just kind of mention two right now because I could go on forever and endless possibilites lol.
Note: I write my HCs, worldbuilding and meta to fit my BG3 narrative for Van and Voss mostly <3
1: they have similar gender ideas, genitals and transitions that we as humans understand
2: they have completely different gender ideas and genitals than us, and transition to them is something more akin to what we know as body modification
(you can also just like, mix and match all these ideas and have fun!)
But first of all I want to think about the ghustil a little more in-depth.
Like it's kind of a catch all term for their healers, and there's one assigned to creches, they most likely have them in their cities, on their raids etc.
Now yes, magic works differently to how we know healing to be (Drs having to specialise generally) but maybe ghustil do too. Their energies aren't infinite. Limited to their physical energies, probably their interests, maybe their own bodies and how it can respond to certain energies and their own psionics (maybe ghustil have a more insular in-touch nature with their psionics than say someone akin to Orpheus whose psionics express outwardly, violently and powerfully.
So even though ghustil assigned places have to deal with all healing and assigned overall ghustil duties (think GP, field medic etc) they might be more proficient in things like manipulating blood or flesh. Mending bones. Augmentation. Diseases etc. I think then we may have subsets within the ghustil. Ghustil adjacent. Ghustil for Kith'raki only. Ghustil that also understand dragon biology extensively. Ghustil for only once you're permitted into Tu'narath etc.
So with this, there could be ghustil who have special interests in, or are very adept at bodily surgery, augmentation and plastic surgery etc that is part of transition.
Maybe githyanki specifically visit these specific ghustil at their creches, at Gith'mir, finding where and which raid they're made to attend and getting top surgery in the middle of a raid while the ghustil runs back and forth tending to wounded.
Referencing point 2 above, maybe there's a complete subset of ghustil that design and focus their skills on creating body modifications to make githyanki feel more complete or comfortable in their bodies.
For example in my genital HCs, more fem aligned bodies usually have more slits than masc, so maybe they'll create more functional slits, or purely decorative ones. Maybe they'll adorn their chests with silver body piercings or modidifications to mimic breasts (if they're in your canon).
For me, the sinister thing about ghustil in my HC is that many of them are very Vlaakith pilled and I like to HC that Vlaakith (from I) has long controlled the population through selective breeding from the change to egg laying from suppossed live births, and it just kind of got worse and worse. So now there's a kind of mass sterilisation in the population unless you're the 'special' chosen shu'kyani.
Not to mention the zhaith'isk lmao and how they know the truth about that nonsense.
Anyway, I'm so sorry for such a long answer, I just love thinking about the possibility of ghustil and what else they could be and do.
