Silver Tongue

Oct 22

You’re able to call your parents “Mom” and “Dad”. They were not born with those names.
You’re able to call your teachers “Mr” or “Mrs” and their last name. You’d get in trouble if you addressed them by first name.
You’re able to call a celebrity by their chosen stage name.
You’re able to call your friends a shortened version of their name, their middle name instead of their first, or a completely random nickname.
You’re able to call a married woman by her husband’s last name, even though she was not born with that last name.
But when someone’s transgender, how does calling them by a name they were not born with somehow become a hassle?

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tapireye:

catsjudgement:
tapireye:
maybe once every 3 weeks i think about how Chelsea manning snuck incriminating files past military security by putting them on a blank cd with ‘lady gaga’ written on it
what
“On January 5, 2010, Manning downloaded the 400,000 documents that became known as the Iraq War logs. On January 8, she downloaded 91,000 documents from the Afghanistan database, known later as part of the Afghan War logs. She saved the material on CD-RW and smuggled it through security by labeling the CD-RW media “Lady Gaga”. She then copied it onto her personal computer.“ from her wiki lmaoo she’s an icon

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nautilusing:

this was the first 280 character tweet I saw and now I never want to see another one because nothing is ever going to fucking top it

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enderman:

art-ichoke:
validflags:
enderman:
we really need to bring back “die cis scum”, it was truly before its time
honestly, shut up.
hey! if you’re telling innocent people to die
maybe you’re scum
ur saying this on the same day the white house released a memo saying that transgender people shouldn’t exist or have human rights protections. i think maybe i have the right to a little bit of righteous anger here or there, my man

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