@RealYeyoZa @MeghanEMurphy In summer of 2011, I was a law clerk in a government agency of a VERY liberal city. A non-passing trans person came in and the folks at the agency did not know what to do. They did not know what transgender meant and did not know how they were supposed to act. That was /1
@RealYeyoZa @MeghanEMurphy seven years ago. I helped explain what I knew from my time in an LGBT clinic in terms of how to be respectful. At that time, the focus was on calling people what they wanted to be called, understanding what they believed, and treating them respectively. How did we get to a /2
@RealYeyoZa @MeghanEMurphy point just several years later where that is enough? Where everyone most believe in that particular theory of gender? And those who don't, even if using the right pronouns and names to be respectful, are bigots? Do folks realize these discussions of gender theory weren't /3
@RealYeyoZa @MeghanEMurphy happening anywhere other than liberal online spaces and college campuses until maybe a couple years ago? Jumping to calling people bigots overnight is not the way to persuade people of your case. We'd be in a much better place if we returned to a world in which /4
@RealYeyoZa @MeghanEMurphy respect is enough, and consensus is not required. /end.
@RealYeyoZa @MeghanEMurphy *respectfully, not respectively (I just realized there were a bunch of typos in this thread, oy.)
