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Please just log off and reflect or something. Something does not need to kill you to be important. Not having your correct pronoun used may not bomb or shoot you but it does serious mental harm- being invalidated isolates you and harms you. Affirmation at no cost to you is harmless. Why would it be harmful for you to just use pronouns as people indicate they want you to. Even if you don’t get it.
First of all, I literally started that comment with “I don’t misgender people” so idk why people keep saying “just use the pronouns”. I do.
Second, my problem is that western leftists care way more about the “serious mental harm” of people in the global north over the absolute physical slaughter of people in the global south, or even people in marginalized communities in the global north. The social gatekeeping is an exercise in extreme privilege that is severely fucking grim.
You can’t compare two distinct issues like this by doing a well what about this also serious issue. No one here disagrees western leftists should help the global south. Why can you also not work on your own biases? You really seem to be disregarding the identities of people as unserious and a waste of time.
I don’t need to work on personal biases lol. I’m not a transphobe. I don’t think they’re invalid, I don’t believe in biological essentialism, I respect people’s pronouns and I stand up for trans people when they’re disrespected. I have been for a while, starting with 10 years ago when I made a scene at a diner after they kicked out a trans woman for using the women’s room. People keep trying to read transphobia out of a genuine concern for the navel-gazing of the western left.
And I’m sorry, but people’s identities being validated is objectively less important than people’s physical bodies being protected. That doesn’t mean you can’t care about both, I’m not saying that. I’m saying that there is a social gatekeeping where you create teams where “if you abide by all these social rules you can be on our side, otherwise fuck you”. We will spend endless days talking about pronouns but people get bored talking about things that are 100% essential for any liberators movement to address.
