[Northern Monkey]

You would certainly hope not.I mean it’s nice to say ‘she’ out of respect or whatever but the minute it becomes some kind of law or rule to call blokes ‘she’ or ‘her’ then it gets dictatorish and silly.
I would do it so as not to upset her but nobody should have language forced onto them.

[pontyboi]

Originally Posted by Northern Monkey

You would certainly hope not.I mean it’s nice to say ‘she’ out of respect or whatever but the minute it becomes some kind of law or rule to call blokes ‘she’ or ‘her’ then it gets dictatorish and silly.
I would do it so as not to upset her but nobody should have language forced onto them.

Exactly I worked in a call centre once and a trans woman called in to donate to the charity it was and obviously over the phone it's hard to tell if it's a male or female but she had to give me her credit card details and it was her birth name...which was male.

At the end of the call I said "thanks sir" and was mortified....it just happens.

[Vicky.]

Originally Posted by Northern Monkey

You would certainly hope not.I mean it’s nice to say ‘she’ out of respect or whatever but the minute it becomes some kind of law or rule to call blokes ‘she’ or ‘her’ then it gets dictatorish and silly.
I would do it so as not to upset her but nobody should have language forced onto them.

Agree with this.

Though if they were calling India he in a clearly malicious way meant to hurt India, then there should be words I think.

But generally..I don't think there should be punishment for using words in the way that words have always been used until the past 5-10 years