Stamets@startrek.website to memes@lemmy.world · 1 year agoActually had to check my ID last week in order to remember my own birthdaystartrek.websiteimagemessage-square80fedilinkarrow-up1521arrow-down146
arrow-up1475arrow-down1imageActually had to check my ID last week in order to remember my own birthdaystartrek.websiteStamets@startrek.website to memes@lemmy.world · 1 year agomessage-square80fedilink
minus-squareCethin@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16arrow-down3·1 year agoThe mistake is still a misgender. It’s just whether it’s interpreted as rude or not.
minus-squareZammy95@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up12·1 year agoOnce they are corrected, it will be MUCH easier to tell if they’re intentionally being rude or not.
minus-squareCADmonkey@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoI misgendered a trans person I worked with once when nobody else was around. I tracked him down later and apologized. He said if he spent all his time being mad about that, he’d always be mad… but I made sure to get it right after that.
minus-squareBondrewd@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·1 year agoNoo. You have to know the gender to commit the act of misgendering in the first place. You have to believe it is x and yet use y.
minus-square🐑🇸 🇭 🇪 🇪 🇵 🇱 🇪🐑@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoThis. With normal people a simple correction is all is needed. Transphobes will however misgender you repeatedly
The mistake is still a misgender. It’s just whether it’s interpreted as rude or not.
Once they are corrected, it will be MUCH easier to tell if they’re intentionally being rude or not.
I misgendered a trans person I worked with once when nobody else was around. I tracked him down later and apologized. He said if he spent all his time being mad about that, he’d always be mad… but I made sure to get it right after that.
Noo. You have to know the gender to commit the act of misgendering in the first place. You have to believe it is x and yet use y.
This. With normal people a simple correction is all is needed.
Transphobes will however misgender you repeatedly