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What would you say to a person that wont use preferred pronouns of a trans person?
If you're trying to make an analogy here, that's incredibly short sighted.
Forcing religious values down other ppls throats is trying to dictate their life.
"forcing" aka asking to be referred to with certain pronouns is asking to have your own life respected.
One is about having your beliefs respected, the other is demanding others to act as if they were part of your faith no matter if they believe or care.
Some religions believe that they should proselytize as many people as possible, so really not letting them convert you is disrespectful to their beliefs.
I agree that thereβs a difference, but Iβm not sure a simple argument like this really works since it is difficult to say one belief is βbetter.β
Proselytizing: You can say no without repercussions.
"Forcing Their Beliefs:" You have to follow the religion or you will face legal/societal consequences.
Not really the same thing at all though is it?
Also bit of a weird constructed example. A faith like that can only lead to it's followers taking offense or religious totalitarianism.
Which is not something I'd engage with so idk why i would tolerate something so intolerant.
The comparison is also kinda failing since one is a belief and the other isn't.
A more fitting comparison would be ostracising someone for their faith vs insisting to misgender someone despite better knowledge.
So then what would you say to a person that wont use preferred pronouns of a trans person?
I'd say if you can at all help it please be less of a cunt
It's not analogous nor related to the topic, but since you asked, this scenario requires a lot of assumptions.
Is said person intentionally misgendering? I'll make it quick. "Please respect [trans person]'s preferences." It's not my business to force them to comply or not.
Taking a WAG at the number, I would say that 90% of people in your belief group would use soft power against someone that wouldnt go along with using their new pronouns. This includes things like banning them from social media, kicking them off youtube, debanking them, ect. Do you think that using influence like this is approapraite to get people to not offend the trans people?
No.
Okay then it sounds like you are like what normal christians are. The problem is that most of the people in your group will start yelling and use their soft force to get people to comply, which most christians dont do. So in the end your group is the one that is trying to use force to get people to follow their ideology.