If Klingons Can Get It, So Can You

This an old repost, but the point stands.

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Based SuvwI'.
- I think that of all my time on Lemmy, this particular comment is my favorite interaction by far.
Of course I can get it, and I have every intention to do so! But it would probably take me more than half a second to retrain my associations of which name to use, which pronouns to use, etc. There is going to be an adjustment period.
- That is entirely fair. I'm trans myself (though I transitioned 20 years ago and it isn't really part of my identity) and constantly stumble on they/them pronouns. It can be hard, but people appreciate you trying, trust me on that.
  
  As a native speaker of a language with only non gendered pronouns, I trip over with all of them. I regularly use the wrong pronoun of people who very obviously present as one or the other.
  Still, I was once asked why I was being so woke for using 'they'. I was really surprised, it was because I was referring to a person with a gender neutral name, what was I supposed to do? Assume they were male?
- This makes me wish we didn't use gendered language to begin with. I get why it came about in societies that wanted to emphasize assigned roles, but fuck all that.
Respect pronouns and respect who people are, or you just might find yourself ~~in a pattern buffer~~ visiting Bajor.
Just as long as you're not poor, like Martok.

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