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[–]lefterfield 20 insightful - 6 fun20 insightful - 5 fun21 insightful - 6 fun -  (3 children)

So... what if Ellen had decided to rename herself "Bob Johnson". Would no one be allowed to utter her birth name? Would anyone know who that refers to?

[–]nautilistic 8 insightful - 3 fun8 insightful - 2 fun9 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

What if every day I change my name and pronouns? Is everyone expected to just keep up and be like "OMG you used my deadname, you horrible person!"

[–]lefterfield 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah, and some people do... among the "woke" group that I'm part of on discord, there's a person(I believe they're male but not certain) who changes their pronouns every couple weeks. And while no one will call this person out publicly, privately some of them admit that they're tired of "that person" and a lot of people just try to stop interacting with them.

Though that kind of makes me wonder... This person is young and probably genuinely depressed/has anxiety. But it seems like the pronoun switching is a way of pushing people away, the way a lot of depressed do. Just makes me angry that all mental health issues are pushed off as "because trans" and they aren't getting real help.

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

I am going to go into work tomorrow and announce that I am transitiong and you are to now call me James. Not only that you have to pretend like Jacalyn never existed and that I have been a man this whole time. Somehow I don't think I would get the Ellen Page treatment=P I wish the wokesters would see this. The only reason people like the Warshoskis, Ellen Page and Bruce Jenner get the treatment they do is because they are famous.