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Larry Sanger is very clearly a man and has never expressed any desire to be treated differently than that.

JdeBP is misgendering him on purpose, which is a very serious offense and even illegal in many parts of the world.

We'll see if this is allowed to stay here.

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Could also be a typo. Unlikely on QWERTY, but if JdeBP uses Dvorak or especially Workman that's more likely than JdeBP going out of their way to misgender a man with an obscure neopronoun

A typo? Twice in the same post? In both places where "he" would normally appear? Localized entirely within your kitchen?

Yeah when I made the comment I only saw the first one. Still don't think it's impossible

How can you misgender with xe? It's unisex. Although Sanger may not want to be treated as unisex I guess.

I'm married to a nonbinary person and not even they like "xe". It's definitely weird to use it for a cisgender person who has never expressed interest in being referred to in that way. It's usually done by people who are trying to normalize the use of "xe/xer" pronouns for everybody, when the fact of the matter is it's clunky and will never catch on, and I've yet to meet an agender person in real life who actually uses those pronouns.

From my understanding, `xe` is a gender-neutral pronoun, no different than using "they".

It is different, since they is quite old, and xe is very new, and so the context and, more primarily, the force of the expression changes.

Misgendering is illegal only in "progressive societies."

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