Good luck with that. I’ve come around on using whatever standard gender pronouns (he/she/they) but with what to me seems insulting (it) and capitalizing… I’ll just still to using the proper noun.
It doesn’t matter what you think
You’ve already lost the battle if you think this way. You show disregard for what other people care for and then expect them to care about your thoughts? Walls instantly go up and no dialog will be had.
When we are talking about an issue where someone is potentially at risk of suicide, nothing else matters. There’s nothing else in the pronoun debate that comes close to the weight of all the dead kids lost to suicide because they didn’t feel accepted by our transphobic society. We need to make trans people feel accepted. Someone else thinking they’re accepted isn’t good enough, because that doesn’t change the suicide risk. The only measure of whether trans people are actually accepted is what trans people think.
Good luck with that. I’ve come around on using whatever standard gender pronouns (he/she/they) but with what to me seems insulting (it) and capitalizing… I’ll just still to using the proper noun.
You’ve already lost the battle if you think this way. You show disregard for what other people care for and then expect them to care about your thoughts? Walls instantly go up and no dialog will be had.
When we are talking about an issue where someone is potentially at risk of suicide, nothing else matters. There’s nothing else in the pronoun debate that comes close to the weight of all the dead kids lost to suicide because they didn’t feel accepted by our transphobic society. We need to make trans people feel accepted. Someone else thinking they’re accepted isn’t good enough, because that doesn’t change the suicide risk. The only measure of whether trans people are actually accepted is what trans people think.
To clarify are you implying people not capitalizing pronouns when interacting with you makes you feel suicidal?