Gender pronouns. What a mixed bag of predicament, that one. I've thought about this quite a bit, especially now that I'm transitioning and facing new, not entirely anticipated social pressures orienting around binary gender - both within the trans community and outside of it, which I'll ramble on aboot in a later post. For now, I'll try to stick to the nitty gritty of answering, " What pronouns do I prefer, and why? " Back in January I posted, "I'm noticing that people are just too confused by it, default on 'she', and it's exhausting to constantly explain genderqueer or how my transition is separate from my gender identity. I'm finding that I'm in a position where it's easier to just use language most people can understand, like "female-to-male", for example. Given the options 'he' or 'she', I feel much more comfortable with 'he'. So, at group yesterday, I said, "I'm starting ...
Haha, suhweet.
ReplyDeleteLMAO - you should have said, "ahhh yours does to are you?"
ReplyDeleteMonkey Outlaw: HA! Good response!
ReplyDeleteThat reminds me of the scene from Aliens, where Hudson asks Vasquez, "Hey, Vasquez...you ever been mistaken for a man?" and Vasquez responds, "No. Have you?"
that is a double booya!!
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