and so are ALL the students with illegible identity dimensions that are subject to that kind of rough handling
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every other time I order at a take-out or Starbucks I have to repeat/spell my name. So be it. I shave before flights. So be it.
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So long as people aren't being actively threatened with bodily harm or death for visible identity markers they can't control...
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...it's best left for people to work out situationally rather than being legislated into a cognitive tax for everybody
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I'd argue we need those laws as procedural/precedental defenses against laws that do the opposite.
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Looking at the recent bathroom laws that inspired men to follow women - already justifiably paranoid - into bathrooms.
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by acting like there's no marginal cost to piling issue after issue onto the SJ agenda, you ensure none get addressed
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I've seen progress on issue at every level get addressed, though, and the other side is constantly moving to roll back existing rights.
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I'll stop arguing now since I think we understand each other's positions in broad contours.
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Reasonable stopping point. For the record, my pronoun is they/them, so I could speak more on performance taxes.
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I've recently shifted from s/he to they in my writing, and generally avoiding second person singular where possible

