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| Topic | Is it disrespectful to transgenders to say you have a deadname and aren't trans? |
| MZero 11/12/21 8:23:26 AM #42: | Paratroopa1 posted... It's improper and usually said in a way that's derisive. It's transgender people, not 'transgenders.' It has like, a similar sort of energy as a fox news-watching grandparent saying 'the blacks.' Not quite on the level of a slur, not really exactly easy to point to why it's offensive, it's just kind of got this subtle element of both reducing people and not taking them seriously. Sorry if that's not really a satisfying answer, it's just one of those things. Thanks! It's kind of confusing that it's fine to use as an adjective but not as a noun, but I guess it must have just picked up a bad connotation based on who was/is using it, which is a fair enough reason to be adverse to it of course. I was just kind of curious if there was more to it --- MZero, to the extreme I never saw azuarc coming, but he won the Guru! ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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