set your goddamn pronouns, i’m asking you as a trans person. Getting misgendered, even online, can be really painful to someone experiencing gender dysphoria. Help your comrades out by normalizing the act of publicly displaying your pronouns, it makes us feel like we don’t stick out as TRANS for putting pronouns on display and makes us feel safer, you know, kinda like how a nice inclusive community should feel?
Don’t care/worried it will compromise opsec somehow? Simply pick the “any” pronoun, comrade! There are dozens of us!
BTW there is no reasonable “other side” to this issue, you either are willing to spend 1 second setting your pronouns to help your marginalized comrades OR you’re an asshole who is putting their own feelings first over others :)
Edit: sincere thank you to the people who listened and set their pronouns! It really does make us trans people who care about this sort of thing feel safer and more accepted :)
Is it possible to have the site set up to require pronouns during registration?
Ugh. I feel like I’m being bullied out of my nice, comfy anonymous online persona and into an actual human persona with a gndr. This feel like revealing personal information about myself, even if it’s blatantly fake information (I absolutely wouldn’t want to be called by any pronoun IRL, but fuck it it’s the least bad option). At least on the discord I could pick every gender at once!
But you know what they say, online bullying works wonders. Today you got me to change my pronoun settings, tomorrow you’ll get boomers on Facebook to support communism.
While I understand the sentiment, isn’t it already true that the vast majority of posters on this site have their pronouns set? It would be nice if everyone did, but I don’t think anyone assumes that other posters are trans because they have their pronouns set. Having your pronouns set on this site *is* the norm.
:xi-clap: MORE :xi-clap: TRANS :xi-clap: WESTERNS :xi-clap:
Also, set your pronouns folks, it’s literally the least you can do.
