Should I use someone’s preferred pronouns if it is not their gender?

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TonyChanYT

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Or maybe not completely. She's a Junior High School teacher, and she still thinks some of the stuff her kids come up with is absolutely ridiculous.
Lady Ballers (2023) takes a comical approach to this issue. It's pretty funny :)
 

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AIR FORCE ACADEMY FALLS FOR A HOAX​

Catholic League president Bill Donohue sent the following letter to the Superintendent of the United States Air Force Academy today:

September 28, 2022
Lieutenant General Richard Clark
Superintendent
2304 Cadet Drive, Ste. 3300
USAF Academy, CO 80840-5001

Dear Lt. Gen. Clark:
In my role as president of the nation’s largest Catholic civil rights organization, I regularly address contemporary cultural issues that are of interest to the Catholic League’s constituency. I am writing to you because there is something going on at the Air Force Academy that merits a response.

To be specific, the Brooke Owens Fellowship is problematic on several levels. The problem is not that it discriminates against men—there are legitimate reasons to have programs that are exclusive to men, or to women—the issue is who qualifies for the program. The application form says it is targeted at “undergraduate women and gender minorities interested in aerospace.”

Gender minorities? Who are these people? The form says the following persons may apply: “cisgender woman, transgender woman, non-binary, agender, bigender, two-spirit, demigender, genderfluid, genderqueer, or another form of gender minority.”

Why is the Air Force Academy peddling this fiction? There is no need to call women “cisgender women.” Nature, and nature’s God, have made it crystal clear that there are only two sexes: man and woman. Transgender women are men who for some psychological reason consider themselves to be a woman. They do not menstruate and they cannot get pregnant. If you have evidence that disputes this, please forward it to me.

I am serious in wanting to read the scientific evidence that proves I am wrong. I can assure you I will provide you with the scientific evidence that proves I am right.

The fiction doesn’t end there. There is no such person—in the history of the world—who is literally non-binary, agender, bigender, two-spirit, demigender, genderfluid, or genderqueer. They are concepts made up by academics. They may exist on the blackboard, but in the real world they do not exist.

As a sociologist, I am well aware of the postmodern roots of transgenderism. It is a pernicious ideology that rejects the existence of truth. It is not based on scholarship, empirical evidence or data of any kind. Indeed, it defies reason. To be frank, it is a hoax.

I think you know that what I have said is true. The shame of it is that you have succumbed to pressure stemming from activists who have no interest in the noble mission of the Air Force Academy. As someone who was honorably discharged from the U.S. Air Force, I find your position irresponsible and indefensible.

Sincerely,
William A. Donohue, Ph.D.
President

cc: Gen. Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Frank Kendall, Secretary of the Air Force
Gen. Charles O. Brown, Jr., Air Force Chief of Staff
 
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I've seen videos where people can't even decide their own gender. Today they may be this and tomorrow that.
How or even why should we try to keep up with the charade?

They say they been brainwashed by society to believe their gender is what their anatomy is. Well, yeah. I don't think it's brainwashing I think it's commonsense. But hey, commonsense left the planet a few generations ago, so...
What is the saying Do as thou will? But I don't want no part of it.

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@TonyChanYT Do you believe it is ok to go along with other religious occult beliefs?
I think that's what got Israel into most their problems. I don't think we should follow in their footsteps, do you?
Just asking.
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Can you imagine putting yourself in another person's shoes like a mature and objective human being?

This is the 2nd time I have asked. Please focus on my question instead of sidestepping as your usual habit.

Sorry for presuming me saying walking in my own shoes was outside of your comprehension to get, no, I do not imagine being in an others shoes of confusion regarding gender. :rolleyes:
 

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I always get a name and use that. If He tells me his name is Judy, yet he looks like Jim ....I'll call him Judy .....After all, Johnny Cash sang about a "Boy Named Sue"

Got far more important things to worry about.
 

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No. If someone is mentally ill, you don't encourge their lunacy by buying into it or supporting it. Insanity is a departure from reality. They need big doses of reality if they're ever going to heal.
 
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Do you think people like Taken will eventually take up this new evolved vocabulary?

No need to wonder Tony….the answer is No.

Gen 1:
[27] So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

How about you Tony…ya think changing truths into lies makes a lie become an acceptable truth?
 
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TonyChanYT

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I do not imagine being in an others shoes of confusion regarding gender.
For the sake of communication with the other person, can you empathize, i.e., putting yourself in their shoes, seeing things from their perspective, and understanding their emotions?
 

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For the sake of communication with the other person, can you empathize, i.e., putting yourself in their shoes, seeing things from their perspective, and understanding their emotions?

We all choose what we will for ourselves. I have no need to wear an others shoes (the other has chosen) to understand, or make their burden my burden.

You want to listen to their in your face rhetoric, woes, demands, influences, pride and think they want your “poor them empathy / pity”, that’s your choice.

Personally I value wisdom over nonsense ignorance.
 
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TonyChanYT

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Can you imagine not coming into agreement with them like a mature Christian and politely say no?
Sure I can. Thank you for asking. Now I ask you: Can you imagine putting yourself in a trans person's shoes like a mature and objective human being?
 

TonyChanYT

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We all choose what we will for ourselves.
Right. Now, for the sake of communication with the other person, can you choose to empathize, i.e., putting yourself in their shoes, seeing things from their perspective, and understanding their emotions?

This is the 2nd time I have asked this question.
 

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pronouns do not BELONG to any one individual, and I will not re-educate myself behind someone's confusion
 
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TonyChanYT

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How do you communicate with someone about Jesus when you bear false witness?

Since when is witnessing to people justify sin?
Please focus. This is the question: Do you want to communicate with these people about Jesus?

This is the 2nd time I have asked.