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Misgendering isn't about your ability to name someone's gender; it's just having the basic decency to use the pronouns they prefer and core empathy to realize s

Misgendering isn't about your ability to name someone's gender; it's just having the basic decency to use the pronouns they prefer and core empathy to realize some people may experience the world differently than you. Just the same as it would be extremely annoying to work with someone that refused to use your name (and not at all forced speech to demand that they get it right; for many trans folx the old name is literally not their legal name anymore). Pronouns are a form of self expression, gender identity is real, and you only need to look at the stats for violence against trans people to the see the active harm in pretending otherwise. Rules enforcing some level of decency have a place on public forums (even if it's not as cut and dry as pedophilia or violent activity); that's why you're here being transphobic rather than /b/.

funcDropShadow 7y ago
> you only need to look at the stats for violence against trans people to the see the active harm in pretending otherwise. Could you reference some of these stats? This argument comes up very often in discussions about trans peoples issues. But, not once have I seen or read someone citing a particular statistic or even pull up a number out of thin air. It is always claimed, there are stats showing increased violence against trans people. Where are the statistics?
- lordCarbonFiber 7y ago
  Well, first off, the claim is not increasing violence towards trans people it's just there exists violence towards trans people and framing the debate as "let's talk about whether you exist" does little to help that. As for sources, hard stats can be difficult for any hate crime (compounded by the fact homicide against trans individuals isn't often recorded as violence against their actual gender) and especially considering that the total trans population is small (and thus vulnerable to effects of small numbers) but the FBI hate crime database [0] and the NCAVP reports [1] are good places to start. Transequality center also collects good resources. Somehow, I don't believe you've really wondered about this too much... [0] https://ucr.fbi.gov/hate-crime/2017/tables/table-1.xls https://ucr.fbi.gov/hate-crime/2017/tables/table-1.xls [1] https://avp.org/resources/reports/ https://avp.org/resources/reports/ [2]https://transequality.org/issues/anti-violence https://transequality.org/issues/anti-violence

funcDropShadow 7y ago

> you only need to look at the stats for violence against trans people to the see the active harm in pretending otherwise. Could you reference some of these stats? This argument comes up very often in discussions about trans peoples issues. But, not once have I seen or read someone citing a particular statistic or even pull up a number out of thin air. It is always claimed, there are stats showing increased violence against trans people. Where are the statistics?

lordCarbonFiber 7y ago
Well, first off, the claim is not increasing violence towards trans people it's just there exists violence towards trans people and framing the debate as "let's talk about whether you exist" does little to help that. As for sources, hard stats can be difficult for any hate crime (compounded by the fact homicide against trans individuals isn't often recorded as violence against their actual gender) and especially considering that the total trans population is small (and thus vulnerable to effects of small numbers) but the FBI hate crime database [0] and the NCAVP reports [1] are good places to start. Transequality center also collects good resources. Somehow, I don't believe you've really wondered about this too much... [0] https://ucr.fbi.gov/hate-crime/2017/tables/table-1.xls https://ucr.fbi.gov/hate-crime/2017/tables/table-1.xls [1] https://avp.org/resources/reports/ https://avp.org/resources/reports/ [2]https://transequality.org/issues/anti-violence https://transequality.org/issues/anti-violence