@binarybits @sarahjeong this is a complete hunch. & yet the preferred language of the communities affected doesn't count as evidence to you?
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@binarybits It's not a rarified concern. It's a foundational distinction for the existence of many people.
@binarybits Heck, it's a foundational distinction for everyone's existence, but trans folk bear the burden of having to be aware of it.
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@binarybits People who misuse sex/gender haven't thought critically about the words' referents, and don't have skin in the game, either. -
@binarybits When language is tied up with self-identification, there's a strong presumption that the self-identifier is "correct." -
@binarybits Hence, my name is Sarah, even if it gets commonly misspelled. I am Korean, even if my entire preschool thought I was Chinese.
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