quacks like a duck

A lot of people now are including their pronouns. Just because a person appears to be a man or woman doesn’t mean that’s how they identify. I know people who identify as non-binary (genderless) even though they look like women or men. Their pronouns are “they” “them.” I’m happy to use whatever pronouns people choose for themselves. Many people whose appearance matches their gender also will include their preferred pronouns so as to support transgender and non binary people whose gender identification is not obvious. I’ve been taking a lot of online improv classes and it’s normal for the instructors and students to put their pronouns by their names on zoom.

Nailed it.

Folks may wish to also be aware of "ze/zir".
These are for apparent men and women who don't identify with their apparent sex. (non-binary)


I dislike the use of "they/them" for non-binary folk, but not because I'm transphobic. These are already plural pronouns with established meaning. Why muddy them with multiple meanings, doesn't English suffer from that enough as it is?

I hope ze/zir phases these preferred plural pronouns out.

The whole mandatory acknowledgement of our sexuality in our terms of he, she, his, hers, him, her, Mr., Ms. Miss, Mrs....It doesn't actually serve much of a function.

I think the world might keep spinning if  we were all ze/zir, Mx. (the non-binary Mr./Ms.), also M, but a pronoun that says, "I'm biologically male in both mind and body and utterly okay with it".  Hey, whatever. If it's important for you to declare that, knock yourself out. 

But if ze/zir is for those deliberately ambiguous, maybe another will come along, say...Zhe/Zhir that means, "Why the hell does it matter? We're buying/selling a car."

Man who identifies as an 8yr. old won the game 
for his teammates with a crushing homerun in a T-Ball
championship...

Actually no to the reference....I am just getting a dig in at the woke and liberal crowd who actually believe there is no difference in gender capabilities, that you are what you identify to be.  
I am a firm believer in fairness,  and that goes for sports. Males should not be allowed to compete against females in athletics. It isn't fair to the females. I am not saying there aren't women who are faster or stronger or more talented in a sport than most men. But side by side with their male counter parts I think we all know the likely outcome of a contest. If trans individuals wish to compete athletically it should be against the same male or female genes.
It seems to me the axiom of how you play the game is especially relevant here.

Transcript from the podcast "Bodies: Changing Shape"

www.dropbox.com/s/sp44n3d4u6xz6dt/Bodies_Season-2_Episode-7_Transcript.pdf?dl=0

": In the spring of 2014, I was 23 years old. I had just moved to San

Francisco for my first real job. Things were good. And then, all of a sudden, I stopped

eating.

I became obsessed with counting calories. I didn’t let myself eat more than 5 or 600 a

day. A banana for breakfast, a salad for lunch, steamed broccoli for dinner.

If I had a meal that felt unhealthy, I would make myself throw up afterwards.

I wasn’t sure why I wasn’t letting myself eat. It wasn’t that I wanted to look different. It

was more like I wanted my body to feel different.

I wanted parts of my body to disappear. When I pulled on my jeans, I did it quickly,

trying to avoid touching the curve of my hips. In the shower, when I ran the wash cloth

over my body, I tried to turn my brain off when I cleaned my chest"

The whole podcast is horrific and a worthwhile listen.

Being trans is a nightmare. Your body growing body parts you instinctively know don't belong there. Body parts you don't want get bigger. When men take certain medicine, or gain weight, the growth of breasts on their chest can be deeply troubling. We sympathize with these people. Yet we insist transmen should ignore their revulsion because it's "natural" (because being cis comes so easily to almost everyone)? 

Misotransists seem to universally paint sexual identification as a whimsical choice much as they did/do homosexuality.
As if one day gay men (lesbians don't seem to receive the same level of malevolence, for some reason) decide for themselves, "My goodness godfrey! I do feel like upsetting the apple cart today and loving men instead of women despite the avalanche of obstacles, penalties, and ostracism I'll get for life!"

That mostly seems to be fading away. Recognition has seeped in that few (if any?) choose to adopt roles reviled by society. Being in the closet was a sign of shame. The "Pride" movement was a antonymic rebellion. The ultimate victory has been indifference.

The Misotransia that is being enjoyed by all the mumbling, seething misohomists is following the same path. There is no "Trans Pride" this time. No in-your-face counter-hostility. Perhaps this is due to strength in numbers? About 5% of the population is homosexual. The trans population is so small it poses no threat, nor is it an economic force to engage. Hostility towards small groups remains easy. They don't have backup.

This go-around, the LGBTQ community is circling their wagons and those of us indifferent to homosexuals are finding it easy to ignore transsexuality (in a good way). The misotransists demonize transpeople with fantastic stories of masquerading straight rapists as if they are not just common but the expected norm. Laws get passed relying on these caracitures of these people stuck with a mindset they did not choose any more than homosexuals. Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it. The people that do not recognize the obvious parallels will look upon an evolving society with flummoxed wonder as their allies drop away and they stand alone, voluntarily silenced with their cis-straight minds that they convince themselves everyone has but some people enjoy "immoral" choices just for fun.

The misotransists aren't trolling liberals. They're selecting a group unlike themselves, so small in number that they fear defending themselves, and deliberately hurting them. Most of the time, when a strong person or group abuses a clearly weaker one, there is widespread contempt for the ones that needlessly attack. I don't see this ending differently and one has to wonder which side of history misotransists think they will end up on and have to live with as their history stays with them. Gay people are typically only mocked and abused in the most economically depressed, culturally backwater parts of the country. How will transexuals be different? Why are they to be relentlessly, endlessly tortured for changing their own bodies? Something no self-secure cis straight man should give two hoot about. Want to be a woman? Who cares? I suspect most misotransists don't even see the transparent historical analogy.

The bigger problem for me when I was going to state championship track was amazon women taking/boosting growth hormone with their parents encouragement. Where there's competition there will be cheating. I wouldn't let my kid on the field with other ladies! I doubt he would want to be on the field with the shame queens!