i wish that was true but if trans person feels like they are being misgendered by your words and you decide to continue doing it then you are intentionally upsetting them. and i would never want to do that. so i just avoid saying these words usually
i wish we had a universal agreement that saying these things are okay, but we don't so i'm going to avoid making people feel bad instead of standing some stupid ground about how "its actually gender neutral"
Another Californian here. At some point I had someone tell me that they don't like being called "bro" and I had the realization that "bro" is a gendered term. I now fear that I will call someone "bro" despite preference by mistake all the time
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Fight me about it. I call my cishet male friends girlfriend allllll the time.
But yeah if anyone every was like stop that I totally would. 🫰🏻