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[–]pollyesther 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Why should I lie for them?

[–]GenderbenderShe/her/hers[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

You're not lying. You're merely respecting someone's pronouns.

[–]MarkTwainiac 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

No, pronouns are not the personal property of people being referred to, or of people who are trying to use novel gender identities, drugs, surgeries, cosplay and make-believe to try to obscure and deny their sex. English ronouns are parts of speech of a shared language spoken by 1.35 billion people on the planet, a language that has long-standing rules of grammar and usage going back hundreds of years that many people worked hard to learn so we can communicate clearly and accurately.

I will call Buck by Buck's preferred name, Buck, rather than by Buck's legal name, Jake Miller, or Buck's given name. But that's as far as I will go with genderflecting to and about Buck. I'm not gonna be guilt-tripped into calling Buck a he when I know that Buck is a she who has taken massive amounts of exogenous T and had her breasts cut off.

During the reign of Louis XIV, the Sun King came up with and imposed new rules of etiquette on his court, servants and the people of France to keep everyone in line and always walking on eggshells. The new rules of etiquette the gender identity tyrants have come up and want to impose on everyone else are just as draconian and just as much a power play. No thank you.

[–]adungitit 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That's like when white supremacists, religious nuts and misogynists say that we should "respect their beliefs". People should not respect beliefs rooted in supremacist ideas that are damaging to humanity.