Good post getting at something I'm always trying to articulate better: It's reasonable to ask people to refer to you as you identify & it's rude to not honor such a request unless it's especially burdensome. It's not reasonable to demand one's internal models rearrange themselveshttps://twitter.com/Aella_Girl/status/1136735610817744896 …
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If you want me to refer to you as "he," "she," or "they," I am happy to do that, no questions asked! If you want me to believe something about what gender is or how it "works," you'll have to supply me with arguments that persuade me.
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Another point brought up in this piece is that for a lot of people, gender is coded *deep.* (IMO this may be a function of how strongly one feels one's own gender identity; for me, it's strong — I'm not "cis by default.") Some aspects of the model may be straight-up inaccessible
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I'm curious. What would be your response to someone who explicitly said "internally, I feel just as female as you, but I have a political belief that we should destroy the concept of gender, and as part of that I'd like to be called they"?
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I don't really care why someone wants to be called whatever they want to be called. I don't want to destroy the concept of gender, but I don't think calling people "they" when they want to be called "they" is going to do that, so... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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