Day 8 - How do you deal with being
read mis-genderd in the beginning of transitioning by people?
Tuesday 9th April
How I deal with being mis-gendered by
people depends on who it is that is mis-gendering me.
If its someone in a shop or restaurant
then I'll ignore it but unless there is a very good reason for me to
use that shop or restaurant then I wont go there again.
If its family then I bite my tongue and
ignore it as much as I can because I've had long enough to accept
that I was born the wrong gender and that I'm now living as the
gender I always should have been. Other family members haven't had as
long to get used to the idea and so I cut them as much slack as I can
because it is with their love and support that I am able to do what
I'm doing.
Eventually though the time will come
when I have to correct them and ask them to make a bit more of an
effort to get it right.
For anyone else that I know then I give
them a chance but will eventually correct them if they get it wrong.
Fortunately to date I've not had to do that as most people get it
right, where they get it wrong then it tends to be just a slip up and
when they realise what they've said they usually apologise.
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