2026-07-25 19:21 UTC
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@kate@hai.z0ne.social 2026-07-25 19:55
@jasmine@chaosfem.tw ... can you provide an example of this? Among our group of friends we only have a single trans person and he is usually referred to by "he" and "him" and by his name Mike. And everybody else also refers to him as Mike. My girl though has a trans girl as a workmate and the staff is totally toxic about her and they refer to her in her absence as "it" or "him" which is very disgusting and horrific in my book. But it sounds as if you mean something different than that?
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@waff@eientei.org 2026-07-25 19:58
@jasmine@chaosfem.tw >it's just very odd how cis people have sort of invented their own language for talking about trans people, which they consider proper and respectful towards us, while we kind of don't really think that it is. sometimes i've even seen them police each other
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@Owlor@meow.social 2026-07-29 18:36
@jasmine@chaosfem.tw I see this happen with neurodivergence a lot too, neurotypical people will tell each other to say "people with autism" when me and most autistic people I know prefer to just be called autistic cus like... that's what we are, there's no need to dance around that. "Person with autism" sounds to me like someone thinks of autism as like, an accessory, a thing you could remove from someone and still have the same person, and that's just not how I experience autism.