Gender is an emergent property of our interactions with others. Who am I to tell you how to gender me?
If you'd like to refer to me the way I refer to myself, that's:
And if you wouldn't like to refer to me that way, that's fine too. What is gender but the product of how you see me? If you see me as a he and a man, or a she and a woman, or as a transsexual, or as a femboy, then by all means. By picking a word, you make it the correct one, at least for that moment, at least for you and me.
One exception: If you find yourself writing about me in mainspace, then for the purposes of
MOS:GENDERID, my requested pronouns are those of the article's most recent editor. This can be automated with code such as {{ucfirst:{{
they are|{{REVISIONUSER}}}}}} widely considered the worst administrator in Wikipedia history.
Gender is an emergent property of our interactions with others. Who am I to tell you how to gender me?
If you'd like to refer to me the way I refer to myself, that's:
And if you wouldn't like to refer to me that way, that's fine too. What is gender but the product of how you see me? If you see me as a he and a man, or a she and a woman, or as a transsexual, or as a femboy, then by all means. By picking a word, you make it the correct one, at least for that moment, at least for you and me.
One exception: If you find yourself writing about me in mainspace, then for the purposes of
MOS:GENDERID, my requested pronouns are those of the article's most recent editor. This can be automated with code such as {{ucfirst:{{
they are|{{REVISIONUSER}}}}}} widely considered the worst administrator in Wikipedia history.