Emily Lake
Might be a replicant
- Joined
- Jul 7, 2014
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- Agenderist
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- Atheist
Yet you make assumptions about it when you use a pronoun. Fascinating.No. I don't know what somebody's gender identity is when I look at them because I don't ask them and I don't care.
No, that's absurd. You don't make an assumption about someone's gender identity. You make an assumption about their sex.
LD, I have to assume that you would refer to me as a woman, and use the pronoun "she" when talking about me, correct? Do you have any insight into my gender identity whatsoever? I submit that you do NOT know a goddamned thing about my gender identity. What you do have information about is my sex. I have never hidden my sex, I have never pretended to be anything other than female. I have talked about my experiences as a female - the experience of having a female body and being treated in the way that my society treats females on the basis of our sexed bodies. You know that I am female.
You know fuck-all about my gender identity.
I know that Laurel Hubbard is a transwoman. I know that Laurel Hubbard is a male person who identifies as, and is more comfortable living as, a woman. Laurel Hubbard also knows this. If I'm ever interacting with Laurel Hubbard in person, I will respect their preference and pretend that I can't tell that they are a male. But everyone knows that Hubbard is male, and I don't think there's any actual harm in referring to Hubbard as "he" in a random internet discussion that he is not part of.