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Accidentally mis-gendering someone is simply an error.

It is the intentional or willful mis-gendering that is being argued in that link as being an act of violence.

Thanks. I did edit my comment to remove the word accidently some time ago. I guess you hadn't refreshed your page for a while.

I often open a handful of news.yc tabs and go through them one-by-one, so it's quite possible that I had an older version of your comment.