#i've been so fired up about misgendering lately lol | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

non-un-topo · 4 months

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Every time someone in my class refers to my she/they professor exclusively as "she" (which is every single time) I sustain -20 damage.

There are a few reasons why my pronouns are he/they, not that there needs to be a reason, but one of them is honestly because it's a bit of a social experiment. The very few people in school who actually bother to get my pronouns right only ever refer to me as "they," despite the "he" being the first one. Hmm. Hmmmmmm.

#i'm studying these people #i've been so fired up about misgendering lately lol #well because it shouldn't happen this much??? in a gender studies program?? and yet.#people are always so shocked when i tell them i only ever get misgendered at school. like why are you surprised? even in gender studies.#was talking to another transmasc friend last week and he admitted that he just doesn't enjoy talking to cis women like he used to -#- probably because of the constant misgendering and them assuming he is one of them. and i completely concur.#sounds bad but i do agree. i just feel totally outside and uncomfortable.#annoys me even more how so many people tell me i need to teach this program so i can 'change the institution' wehh wehh

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