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I've been trying to sort out all these recent posts today and I think your summary is a pretty good one. At the risk of being downvoted, as a cisgender same-se
by jurassic 7y ago
I've been trying to sort out all these recent posts today and I think your summary is a pretty good one.
At the risk of being downvoted, as a cisgender same-sex attracted member of the "LGBTQ+ community", I suspect only a relatively small number of outspoken transgender activists would have a problem with revisiting this policy change with the aim of restoring goodwill in the community. We are so often lumped together by broader society as LGBTQ+ (and variations) that many people outside the world of gender and sexual minorities don't realize how much conflict there is between the LGB people and the T people.
It seems ludicrous to me that anybody should care about the pronouns of anonymous question-askers on the internet. But then again I also don't see much sense in performing tons of free moderation labor for StackExchange.
- chillfox 7y agoIt seems pretty simple to me. If you don't know what pronoun to use then the correct one is "they", and if you do know then using the wrong one or deliberately going out of your way to avoid one is just rude. Obviously, lots of answers will flow perfectly naturally without using pronouns and those should be fine like that.