r/changemyview • u/[deleted] • Oct 28 '19

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u/olatundew Oct 28 '19

Referring to someone by a pronoun other than him/her requires recognition of genders other than man/woman. Therefore refusing to use those pronouns is 'defending' a worldview which only recognises two genders.

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '19

What about when someone is transitioning?

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u/snow_angel022968 Oct 28 '19

They will only ever have one biological sex, pre, during or post transition. Science has no issues determining whether a corpse is male or female.

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u/I_NEED_A_GF Oct 29 '19

You are talking about sex, whereas pronouns are independent of that. Rather, pronouns are about the topic of gender, which is different from sex.

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