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Please don't do generalized putdowns of entire classes of people. That's flamebait (and worse), and not in the spirit of this site. If you have a substantive point to make, you can make it without doing that.

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Unfortunately, that's ultimately the goal of the craze the media is pushing, and it fuels the endless narrative about discrimination. If we want sanity to win, we need to get back to judging people based on their behavior other than affiliation, against the immense media pressure to do otherwise.

> their attitude of sharing things that don't really belong in a workplace.

This doesn't in any way seem inherent to being transgender, and hence not a reason to avoid them in general? Seems more like a characteristic of some particular people you happen to know, and identity politics or not, generalising that over people who happen to share a noticeable trait with them is what I think we should be careful to avoid anyway.

I agree 100%.

But then I was recently informed that I spent almost 2 years working with a trans person (m2f) without noticing.

So your mileage might vary.

That's awesome, yeah I guess it was quite bad from me to say that, mostly because I was defining a set of people based on a few bad experience, but yeah the mileage varies and I made my point in a rushed way

>we have to be careful for example about using the right pronouns in order to accomodate the need of like a 0.% of the population

Is this really a problem? It's a zero cost action.

It would be, it could be, but the few times that you refer to a person with the wrong pronoun then you are likely to be offended and to be lectured about how you didn't understand that they were something else

More likely, the person will simply ignore it. There are exceptions of course, and I think you have those exceptions in mind with your comment.

You can use the "Shinigami Eyes" extension to warn you about people who might get offended by misgendering them. Saves you alot of trouble if you are spending time on Twitter or Reddit.

The day I install an extension in my browser perpetually loaded in order to accomodate and make an effort to satisfy the 0.% of the population while the 0.% of the population is not available to make an effort in order to let me know in a civilised way that they identify with another pronoun, then kill me, because also letting people know in a civil way that you prefer other ways to address you is a 0-cost action

That’s absolutely insane.

Its genius, given the fact that these people themselves created these lists to allow anyone to avoid them.

It's not. It costs attention - and that's the primary battleground of the information society. To divert the masses attention from the goals that could help them unite.

How is it any different than remembering and using people's preferred names?

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