Again, we try not to pick on random Twitter users because it’s never our intention to send an army of people after them, but some posts just touch on something so supremely stupid that we just have to share.
Ez from Scotland prefers to be referred to as “they” and “them,” and they’d also like you to put your preferred pronouns in your Twitter bio if you’re cis (i.e., you identify as the sex you were born with). If you don’t think that’s necessary because you’re obviously male or female … that’s transphobic.
Cis people, please:
Put your pronouns on your profile
Put your pronouns on your profile
Put your pronouns on your profile
Put your pronouns on your profile
Put your pronouns on your profile
Put your pronouns on your profile
Put your pronouns on your profile— Ez ? (@BestLaidTrans) June 22, 2019
No. Next.
And anyone who's first thought in response to this is: "but I don't need to! People can clearly see I'm a man/woman!" or anything if the sort
Guess what
*game show host voice* Thaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat's transphobia!
— Ez ? (@BestLaidTrans) June 22, 2019
No, it’s not. Next.
Why should cis people put their pronouns on your profile you ask?
It normalises stating pronouns & makes it easier for trans people to exist in the world & stops us being targeted
It challenges the that gender is obvious, that you're "clearly a man" without specifying pronouns
— Ez ? (@BestLaidTrans) June 22, 2019
Does a full beard suggest that gender is obvious, or is that transphobic too? Probably the latter.
If you're not making it easier for trans people to exist in the world, then you're making it harder. There's no safe middle uninvolved neutral fence with this.
You help trans people exist or you contribute to oppression. Make a choice 🙂
— Ez ? (@BestLaidTrans) June 22, 2019
We choose to leave “preferred pronouns” out of our profiles, thanks.
Cis folk: adding pronouns is such a small task! It takes 10 seconds for you to add pronouns to your bio. I'm not asking you to take to the barricades & fight someone, I'm saying make a small change.
If you're not willing as an ally to even do that, wtf are you even here for
— Ez ? (@BestLaidTrans) June 22, 2019
You tweeted it to the world, we didn’t.
Repeating yourself doesn’t make your point any less stupid. pic.twitter.com/5Y9s5KhSJZ
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) June 23, 2019
My pronouns are “your majesty/your eminence.”
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) June 23, 2019
Mine are "pharaoh" or "my lord"
— Rebecca (@PharaohRCM) June 23, 2019
“I’m trans and i dont care if you are also trans, if you dont subscribe to my trans rules you are transphobic and hate yourself”
— natalie (@naeriface) June 23, 2019
Oh, I'm way ahead of him. My first thought isn't "I don't need to," it's "I don't feel like it."
— lordbitememan (@lordbitememan) June 23, 2019
This is why we don't take them seriously ?
— Jd (@MichaelisJd) June 23, 2019
Whenever I see pronouns in a profile I know that this is not a person to be taken seriously.
— Adam (@AdmHnsn) June 23, 2019
Especially if it’s a trans “ally” who’s trying to be woke.
Why do these people, after years of telling us we have no say in their decisions and lives, always turn around and tell us what to do?
— ? Lord Nifty ? (@lordnifty) June 23, 2019
All I’m hearing is some rando demanding that I identify myself.
Such noise.— Pro Dover (@Pro_Dover) June 23, 2019
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No— Top Hats & Cat Punk (@thachampagne) June 22, 2019
— Dr. Happy Kaxu ?☣️ (@HappiestAku) June 22, 2019
— Book 1: Jewels in the Rough, release July 8, 2019! (@OneLastEcho) June 22, 2019
Oh look an authoritarian pic.twitter.com/lq7jzXufx6
— Jack Sledge IV (@kingsledge88) June 22, 2019
If you do this and you clearly look male/female, people will think you’re transgender even though you’re not. Bad idea and you just want something to debate or be angry about
— Majestic Walrus (@MajesticWalrus_) June 22, 2019
I thought it was all about the freedom of choice?
— Random Lobster (@b11c) June 22, 2019
I reject your labeling of those whose preferences you dont agree with as "cis" how I choose to be identified is none of your concern and frankly I dont appreciate your straightphobic attitude
— Stan (@Konoruck) June 23, 2019
It's cool dog, I have a pretty strong sense of identity that I don't treat like a favorite shoe brand.
— Warboss Uli (@SYGLP) June 23, 2019
No thanks I'm good
— Envious Celadon (@Stellar_Celadon) June 22, 2019
Questions: If I don’t
1. Should I go to jail?
2. Will it cause offence to anyone?
3. Will I be shunned for life?
4. Why should I tell the Twitterati how I identify when I don’t even use my own name?
5. Same as Q3 but hypothetically ‘what if I did use my name?’— No! Not the MindPROBE! (@DrOho) June 22, 2019
No, because of a very simple thing. I am happy for someone to make a mistake without assuming the very worst of them, we're human we all make mistakes. I simply choose to make room for those mistakes.
— Anarki671 (@Anarki671) June 23, 2019
— CovfefeDan ???? (@rl_daniel_san) June 22, 2019
Hey, I was thinking about this and I have a question. Wouldn't this put unnecessary pressure on closeted trans people to either out themselves or put pronouns they're not really comfortable with?
— Zoe (@MoonNightZoe) June 22, 2019
(I'm not cis btw) I would however 1. If someone from my real life found out I could be put in a really bad spot and 2. I feel that my pinned tweet would help to make people comfortable.
— an unstoppable wave of fire ants (@jimbob_butler) June 22, 2019
Go ahead and assume my gender I don't mind.
— Pelcogo (@InsanityPilgrim) June 22, 2019
I’d like to have my opinions taken seriously though
— murky (@murkyBonbon) June 23, 2019
Nah, that's the easiest way I know to ignore someone.
— chero666 (@chero666) June 23, 2019
Will pronouns come up in the Democratic debates? They did at Saturday’s Planned Parenthood candidates’ forum:
At Planned Parenthood event: a non-binary activist just asked Castro how he’ll expand sexual & reproductive health for trans people. Castro responds by first asking which pronoun the activist prefers. They replied, “I actually don’t use any pronoun,” which received some applause.
— Olivia Nuzzi (@Olivianuzzi) June 22, 2019
Related:
ACLU and other groups celebrate first-ever International Pronouns Day to empower nonbinary people https://t.co/66HE2hT69J
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) October 17, 2018
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