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the-pi-guy said:
Majora said:


If you’re compelling people to use language that you want them to, there is no “suggestion”. Suggesting is not a problem; a suggestion can be accepted or rejected. “Suggesting” someone use the words you mandate or else they will be fired, or fined, or imprisoned, isn’t a “suggestion” at all. 

In real life, most of the time it's a suggestion. 

Where are people getting imprisoned or fined?

Fired is a lot trickier. If you're a school counsellor, and one of your kids ends up killing themselves because you can't do the basic decency of being kind to them, then yeah I think you should be fired. 

Where? In the United Kingdom, where I live. 

Don’t be disingenuous. You know perfectly well the hysteria that ensues regarding “misgendering”. If you’re going to pretend you don’t, then I don’t have anything more to add to you.

Also, once again the hysteria. Immediately we jump to a suicide scenario. I’ll make it clear: I do not think it is kind to pander to people’s delusions. Yes, I regard it as thus. Gender dysphoria is indeed a real condition and should be treated and the people treated with respect and care. A person who isn’t gender dysphoric and is a man who wants to be called she/they/xir or whatever else, no, that doesn’t warrant respect. 

If your personal identity is so fragile that it needs to be validated by every person in the outside world, you have far bigger problems than being misgendered.