https://old.reddit.com/r/lgbt/comments/174vep5/am_i_transphobic
The other day at work, I was helping this young transgender man customer and I didn't know he was transgender until he corrected me very rudely after I said “It would be in the next aisle Miss” saying “ugh why does everyone misgender me? My pronouns are he/him, can't you tell?” And whispered to his friend “cis people annoy me” and I'm not even cis? (I'm a demigirl)
TLDR: A transgender man got upset I assumed he was a woman and I accidentally used the wrong pronouns but I apologized and afterwards addressed him with the proper pronouns . Am I transphobic?
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We're won't punish you, as long as you educate yourself, sweaty.
Mhm! I am trans, and would rather someone not call me sir/ma'am, and just say, "It's in the next isle."
You should be rude to people and avoid polite titles because you might offend the permanently offended.
you're not transphobic. maybe stop using the gendered terms though so it doesn't happen again
While you may not be transphobic, you're a horrible rude prick anyway!
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That's right, we should avoid gendered language even though that'll set off the dusty fricks that are constantly seething about the superior generations.
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We have a gender neutral term, neighbor, but blacks are preventing white people from using it. Transphobia would be solved if we could all use neighbor because you know that whites would start using it at every opportunity.
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