Apparently, if some shrieking weirdo appears to be a male and you refer to them as such and they think of themselves as female – or something else entirely – you have just “misgendered” them, and that’s terrible and bad and wrong. Not because what you’ve said is objectively factually inaccurate, but because they simply don’t *like* to be called male.
Fine, whatever.
In recent years, an effort has been pretty successful to start referring to people who identify as what their bodies are as “cisgendered,” “cis-male,” “cis-female.” This terminology was not chosen by your average “cisgendered” person, but has been dropped on us without our consent. So… referring to a “cisgendered” person as such seems to me to be a form of “misgendering.” Such misgendering should, it seems to me, be countered with something like “I’m not ‘cisgender,’ I’m ‘normal’.” You can then launch into a five-minute rant about how the other person is ignorant and in need of education and how it’s not your responsibility to provide, free of charge, the emotional labor required to train them up in the recognition of such things.
Discus.
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