• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
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        7 months ago

        If you were regularly harassed by being called a gender that you aren’t after spending years pretending to not be that gender because other people wouldn’t like it, you might care.

        Just like you might care if you were black and someone refused to stop calling you ‘negro.’

        • fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de
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          7 months ago

          That’s my whole point though.

          I just can’t imagine caring about this very much. Sure, when I was an angsty teen, but as an adult “what people think” about me is just so far down the list of things I care about.

          • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
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            7 months ago

            Maybe because you come from a place of privilege where you didn’t have to hide who you really are due to a vast amount of society hating you for it and just want a little bit of courtesy from the people around them instead of endless hatred?

      • Drivebyhaiku@lemmy.world
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        7 months ago

        Your perception and opinions is likely why you don’t know of any adults who fret over third person pronouns. You are not a safe person to bring those concerns up to so no one is going to out themselves around you. I assure you it’s more common than you think.

        Generally speaking we’re looking to gain quality of life. If someone negatively reacting is a bigger problem than the internal dysphoria triggers then we take the loss and just quietly hope we don’t have to be around you for long.

      • refalo@programming.dev
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        7 months ago

        the problem is, in the tech world, many transgender people seem to make their entire existence revolve around their gender identity and then try to force inclusion politics on everyone.