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Tien1985

(923 posts)
Sat Aug 24, 2013, 08:02 AM Aug 2013

Trans* [View all]

Why do people feel so personally wronged when a trans* person comes out?

How is someone asking you to use an appropriate pronoun an imposition and a hardship to you?

If you know Bobby next door your whole childhood, and one day he said, "hey, actually, I go by Bob now." Would that cause some kind of identity crisis for people?

It just seems ridiculously childish to me. I understand not getting it, I understand mistakes. But actively refusing to use appropriate pronouns and acting like a victim when called on it seems so over the top.

I'm just frustrated.

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