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Meghan Murphy on Sex, Feminism, Sports, Fast Food, The Walking Dead, Mexico, and Some Like It Hot

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The Importance of Correct Pronouns in Trans People

When people ask me to use correct pronouns like I'm I usually do use correct pronouns because I'm a Canadian. Some of the trans women I am most unconflicted to use their preferred pronouns for are the ones who don't insist on it and are totally upfront about the biology. It's not like if you don't you're transphobe or they're not giving me the signal that by using those secret code monosyllables that I'm like a seeding to some kind of fantasy version of biology, he says. "That makes me paradoxically want to be polite to me when I don't want to usecorrect pronouns"

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