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SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

I see no reason they can't identify themselves as being trans and then move on to discuss something else.

We're talking about you deliberately misgendering them. They likely have moved on to discussing something else, but they've had to come back to the issue of their gender because you insisted on getting it wrong. Even that's just your own addition to the scenario; perhaps they haven't said anything because they're uncomfortable trying to correct you after you've deliberately misgendered them.

I asked for a situation in which you would be justified in deliberately misgendering somebody instead of accepting their identity, knowing the impact that can have on their well-being. You've responded with a situation in which you accidentally misgendered somebody, then manufactured them going on and on about that mistake as an excuse to just disengage from the whole issue. That's not you deliberately misgendering them, meaning it's not an answer to the question I asked.

If you can't come up with a scenario in which you feel you would be justified deliberately misgendering somebody? Welcome to the club of not being a transphobic nuggetwanker! "I can't think of such a scenario" is a perfectly valid answer to my challenge, though that comes with the caveat that you abandon your defense of Peterson by saying that (or, more accurately, if you can't come up with a scenario in which he feels justified deliberately misgendering somebody, though that's implicit in not being able to come up with your own scenario because you could have just copied his).

SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

Now I'm questioning how good of a friend they are to mix that up.

I'm not here to judge how attentive you are to your friends. Just to come up with analogies that illustrate how absurd it is to cut somebody out of your life because they corrected you when you got a key part of their identity wrong.