like a general litmus test or something

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[–] 28 points 2 years ago (6 children)

pronoun push

I don't want to detract from the main line of discussion here, but I find this to be a weird hangup. It's been a normal thing since at least Facebook's founding for social media sites to list the user's gender. I kind of wish there was a more elegant solution in broadly-understood culture, but I think listing how the user would like to be referred to if you discuss them in the third person is, if anything, far less invasive with labeling than the common alternatives (including not including such information, which produces endless little worthless discursive circles of "actually I'm not a he" from assuming everyone on the internet is a man).

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    Maybe this is insensitive, but being misgendered on an anon online forum, open to the public, is not a big deal

    To people who have spent their entire life being misgendered, it is

    A single moment of positivity can outshine half a dozen moments of negativity

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    us to get along and treat each other as humans

    This begins with acknowledging that some people don't fit into a neat binary category, if they even identify with the spectrum at all

    The point isn't to form cliques, the point is acceptance. If one claims to support trans rights, but then misgenders that person and refuses to acknowledge how they would like to be referred, then one is not supportive of trans rights

    Be better

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