Also, if sex is a visible difference at your workplace, you must work at a nudist colony. (Also, you'll still be wrong sometimes)
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Replying to @mchris4duke @pennyb
Not all gender/sex is diagnosable from genitals tho.
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Ph, that's what you meant when you said "you'll still be wrong sometimes", I guess.
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That is what I was trying to say, may have missed
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Replying to @mchris4duke @pennyb
It's just that appearance and clothes — as opposed to the naked body and genitals — are more under our control for self-expression.
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As you said earlier- creating the safe space for self identification is key. Anything else is guessing and a bad idea IMO
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Replying to @mchris4duke @pennyb
Yes, although I would add the caveat that asking people their gender is often in of itself outing them. It must be done correctly.
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Many trans women for example wear dresses because they love dresses but also because they would you to code them as women automatically and
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not ask them if they are women.
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At any rate, it sounds as if we agree on all this and in fact my original tweet missed. I'm sorry for that, and grateful for this convo
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I wouldn't say missed. I just wanted to express some more detailed stuff because tweets are hard — nuance can be very tricky. 
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