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   timberwraith (timberwraith@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 22-Sep-2024 08:09:59 JST timberwraith

   You know, I guess one of the quirks of being transgender and one of those vegetarian/sort of vegan, animal rights/welfare weirdos, is that my sensitivity to pronouns extends to other animals.

   I feel really uncomfortable when people refer to non-humans as "it." It just makes me cringe.

   She, he, or they conveys the respect of seeing them as living, feeling individuals, just as you or I are.

   And that's why human's call other animals "it" I guess. We don't want to extend that status to them.

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     timberwraith (timberwraith@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 22-Sep-2024 08:09:59 JST timberwraith

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     And that's *also* why some cis people call trans people "it." They don't want to extend the status of being living, feeling individuals to us.

     Funny how that all lines up.