It’s courteous to address someone how they would like to be addressed: man, woman, he, her, they, just their name, he’ll even Mr. or Miss or Mrs are signs of respecting how someone would like to be addressed. With transgender peoples now you have the tiniest amount of being considerate with something deemed “weird” mixed with all sorts of online-ness so people have a shit fit when a celebrity realizes they’re trans and would like to be addressed as such. You can chalk it up to transphobia (which it is), but it’s a deeper rot into how they cannot see themselves as part of a society filled with other people like them capable of emotions and vulnerabilities. In a way they’re sociopaths and I honestly don’t know how we handle this widespread cultural sociopathy when the advice of “just be nice to people” is met with “why should I.”
It’s courteous to address someone how they would like to be addressed: man, woman, he, her, they, just their name, he’ll even Mr. or Miss or Mrs are signs of respecting how someone would like to be addressed. With transgender peoples now you have the tiniest amount of being considerate with something deemed “weird” mixed with all sorts of online-ness so people have a shit fit when a celebrity realizes they’re trans and would like to be addressed as such. You can chalk it up to transphobia (which it is), but it’s a deeper rot into how they cannot see themselves as part of a society filled with other people like them capable of emotions and vulnerabilities. In a way they’re sociopaths and I honestly don’t know how we handle this widespread cultural sociopathy when the advice of “just be nice to people” is met with “why should I.”