LogFAQs > #878772372

darkknight109 posted...

don't know of too many polite people who characterize someone they never met as "some oddball".

Super_Thug44 posted...

this is an unimportant issue to 99% of the population.

They are an oddball if they are out of the ordinary, as this user pointed out
with the one percent.

darkknight109 posted...

deoxxys posted...

And pretty much everyone I've interacted with doesnt blow their cool because I dont call them their preferred name by accident.

By the same token, no trans person I've ever interacted with gets upset if you screw up their gender, particularly if it's your first time meeting them. And if you make a subsequent mistake, it's typically brushed aside (and more to the point, even if it wasn't that's an issue with that person, not with the request they're making). Most of them understand that what they're going through is largely unknown by, and sometimes confusing to, the non-transgendered population. Where they get (understandably) upset is if you repeatedly ignore their requests and deliberately call them by a different gender - then you're just being an asshole.

deoxxys posted...

Things like jon/jonathon are understandable thats fair. Its just a shortened version of his name.

And using different pronouns is just a variation on words you're already using. It's the exact same thing.

Well duh im not calling a mtf Transsexual a he but im not calling some dude with a male appearance that just decided he wanted to be referred to as a she, thats just lazy.

And no I'm not referring to people by made up pronouns

If I ever by some rare chance have to interact with someone who is that "Did you assume my gender" type person, I will respond, are you assuming I was referring to your gender?
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