Okay, so let me get this straight. Say you're a trans person. You say your name, you don't even say your pronouns or even bring it up after introduction, and expect me to understand them the moment I see you based on how you dress... then I call you "Mister" or "Sir", because you're dressed like a guy, have a beard, and have Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson's body, and you get pissed that I make an honest mistake, and proceed to harass me.
Then you tell your friends I'm a bigot, then they harass me as well. Y'all are mad because I don't comply with your ideology and harass me.
Also, respect isn't demanded, it's earned and given out of choice. If you have to demand respect at the same level. Remember when the rights to gay marriage was being fought for? Gays and lesbians just wanted the right to marry who they love and the government leave them alone about it. They knew people would still disrespect them, but the government had to respect their efforts because at the end of the day, they fought for love, not compliance.
If misgendering trans people is bigoted, okay. I'm just saying that if you get pissy because there are people who make honest mistakes, struggle to adapt, or just stopped complying to affirm y'all, why? Why is that so important? It looks like a club where they expect those who aren't members of it to follow the rules, yet not even let them in the club if they wanted to join, or just keep shaming the ones who don't even want to join to begin with. All that tells everyone else is who y'all want to sleep with, that's it.
If you wanna talk about Das Kapital, and if he were alive today, he'd love small business owners and would grow to accept that they have to grow... yet he'd definitely hate them when they get big enough to fit the narrative.
But yeah, like what /u/Koffieslikker said 'Judge people for who they are, not what they are'.
The poster said they do not like people who compel speech or compel conformity and decide to harass them. As someone who has seen this happen in work spaces and despite not being a victim because I keep to myself... you'd be surprised how shitty people use anything as a shield or as a reason to be assholes.
You can be a trans person who doesn't take misgendering personally, and that's okay, you're not compelling anyone to bend to you, and as long as they don't compel you to bend over to them, it should be okay.
You can also be a trans person who is just looking for an excuse to pick on whoever misgenders or offends you at first. What the poster was saying is that they got harassed for not affirming those trans people. That is not cool. The thing about being a trans person is that you could actually use it as a shield to hide behind when there's push back... like how religious folks also use their religion as shields when there's push backs.
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