Today I learned that many people posting here are transphobic.

[noamnety]

213. Why would you be "ambiguous" about the pronoun?

If you are making a decision to be ambiguous because you are willfully refusing to acknowledge Chelsea Manning as a woman, then yeah, it's bigoted and intolerant and you should expect to be called out for it. It's kind of right up there with someone thinking they aren't a bigot because they don't "hate" gay people - and explaining they hate the sin, not the sinner, and in the same breath talking about how they can probably get some anti-gay therapy for that, and then whining that Christians are being persecuted for not supporting marriage equality.

You can either acknowledge people's identity, or make a point of refusing to do so. But you don't get to make a point of refusing to acknowledge a transgender person's identity and then act like you are the victim and everyone else is an intolerant bully. If there's something in you that has a need for talking about transgender people as if they no longer have any gender at all, you are on the side of bullying; you aren't the one being persecuted.