First of all, thank you for trying to answer my question.
Could you kindly specify a bit more what do you mean by "our current society"? I'm not from States or Europe by the way.
However, now I get your point,and have some thoughts.
If it's just to prevent misgendering, a section specifically for pronoun would help and be easier way to go. But I'd disagree that just looking at someone's pronoun section as a habit to avoid misgendering would help with mutual understanding. These things are different from dog training. Regardless of the kind of discrimination or misunderstanding, you're supposed to try talk open/friendly with the person who's misunderstanding you, so for them to be able to get to know you better step by step/bit by bit.
I mean, for an instance, though your thought seems to be like "no one is obligated to educate you", "educate yourself before joining the discussion", it's pretty much wrong way in my opinion.
I have friends in real life who are Female to Male transgenders. And how they act is opposite of that. They try to talk open and friendly, would just give us more explanation/information through natural chatting when we speak some wrong ideas about the issue, so it could be more emotionally understandable to we - who are not familiar with the issue. Without interactions it's impossible to achieve, I came to believe so through seeing them.
"Educate yourself before joining discussion" kind of process doesn't help.
}Also. If this is a drift-away from the subject, I'd apologize.
"These things are different from dog training." as a former dog trainer, you're correct. training dogs can be much harder.
irishchai has the correct idea: the more we normalize things like using gender neutral pronouns and not assuming peoples' pronouns off the bat, the more we normalize being accepting of pronouns that don't "match" someone's appearance. it's not going to end transphobia singlehandedly but it's an itty bitty step in the right direction. i know because i've seen it.
it is important to acknowledge that every trans person is different, and expecting all of us to act in identical ways is not only unrealistic but also bordering on transphobic (not necessarily accusing you here, just pointing it out since i realize we're dealing with a language barrier). we are an incredibly diverse community with diverse emotions and experiences just like everyone else. we as a society cannot base how we see trans people or how we think trans people "should be" based on the few that we know, and this goes for any minority/marginalized group.
trans people are more in the light now than ever before, and therefore everyone should seek to educate themselves on what it is to be transgender, what is considered transphobic behaviour, along with what are transphobic slurs without waiting for a trans person to come and do it for them. trans people are expected to already know all of this, so why is the standard different for people who aren't trans? why are we the ones who have to be educated
and do the educating? it's incredibly unfair.
we also cannot expect every single trans person to be cool and collected when faced with transphobia, even if unintentional. no one expects cis people to be calm when insulted, in fact it's often declared reasonable to fight back in some sense. the expectations that trans people (and any marginalized group) are tasked with to be robotic when faced with discrimination because the other person "didn't know" is just another form of aggression we face on a day to day basis.
also just a sidenote, "trans" and "transgender" are adjectives, not nouns. they should come before person/people/man/men/woman/women. "transgenders" is incorrect.
Forcing people to read up because they are "inferior/boomers/uneducated"
where did anyone use any of the words in quotes?
no one is forcing anyone to do anything either, it's a reasonable request. if we're going to call it force, one could also claim that we are being forced to educate without having any emotions at all.
Not cis and personally don't feel or see a need for it.
care to explain why? it doesn't really help anyone when there's just a "nah" with no reasoning.
besides, no one HAS to put their pronouns on display just as you don't need to display your friend codes. Where else do you think it would be appropriate? The only other area I could think of was having it right above the signature line or in parentheses next to the user name. But having it listed by the join date and post count would be more organized imo.
