# Black Panther movie

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [February 18, 2018, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-panther-movie/809075 "2018-02-18T20:07:04Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 15, 2018, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-panther-movie/809075/601 "2018-03-15T18:35:31Z")

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> [@Kimstu](#):
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> I’m rather surprised that you as a self-proclaimed devotee of Millian liberalism are so resistant to referring to a transgender girl by the pronouns she prefers. What happened to allowing maximum liberty to individual freedom as long as it’s not harming others? What harm is her choice of pronouns doing to anybody else?

You’re right. I have no answer to that, and I apologize. Lila wants to be called Lila and referred to as “she”, and there’s no reason for me not to indulge her in her preference. Mea culpa.

I would associate myself with the perspective provided by the first person I quoted from that articcle, a father of a girl at the school: “If she wants to be identified as a girl, we should respect that.” And although it’s not clear from the article, I doubt he has a problem with her using a stall in the girls’ bathroom. The stalls are, after all, private from each other. But showering or changing in front of girls is another matter entirely.  
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