A homeless person in Portland explains their they/she pronouns

@ScreaminMime Sane ppl do not have preferred pronouns.

@howwonderfool
Of course you do, I ASSume your preferred pronouns are he/him but if I were to refer to you as she you're not going to throw a tantrum and neither would I. Nor would you try to appeal to lawmakers to make it against the law and neither would I. But we still have our PREFERRED PRONOUNS

@ScreaminMime I don't per se prefer my pronoun. It is what it is. And if someone would ever misgender me in person I would advise him or her to go see an optician, or laugh at the motherfucker. My sex, my gender is not depending on others' opinions, but only on biological fact. I'm a (biological) male, I'm to be referred as he/him using pronouns as for an individual. And neither me, nor others can change facts using other (even more made-up) words..

When I was young, around 10-11, winter time, sledging, some of the children couldn't decide whether I was a girl or a boy, and one, that hindered my rides multiple times before, finally asked me - had a hooded jacket, scarf around, only my in fact girlish face could be seen, also I was younger them, and didn't know anyone there (the sledge hill was relatively far from our flat) - I've answered what my father told me (when being a child he got that question too, even more he was on one occasion targeted by a later turned out to be serial killer woman and her companions, going after young girls): [with deeper voice than that who was asking] Suck on what I have, and you'd know.

That worked fine, the guy was flabbergasted. I remember him standing on top of the hill, without making one step, while I sledged down 2 times. And rest of the afternoon he'd stop hindering me. I didn't make friends that day - I wouldn't want to be friends with bully-wannabes to begin with; maybe they've wanted the whole place for themselves, and they've come up with the "no girls allowed" rule - but sledging was truly aweseome.