if someone asks you to call them “it” you fucking do it because using someone’s pronouns does validate their identity and respect them as a person. it baffles me that on the same poster they could say “calling some one “it”… is demeaning and does not validate their identity or respect them as a person” and “it is vital that we respect the names and pronouns that people prefer.”
Plus I hate the term “preferred pronouns.” It’s not a fucking preference. I don’t ‘prefer’ to be called she. It is a requirement, if you refuse to call me she you are attacking and assaulting me and being and emotional terrorist and I will take any means necessary to prevent that from happening again.
emphasis added. REQUIRED PRONOUNS. REQUIRED RESPECT & ACKNOWLEDGMENT. not preferred. REQUIRED.
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