I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you don’t know that it’s really quite offensive to address females - particularly females who have made it completely clear that they no longer want to be regarded as males - by masculine pronouns.
I believe the convention here is to refer to the trans person by the pronoun they prefer to use themselves, which in this case is ‘she’. This is regardless of the efficacy or otherwise of any hormone treatment. Of course, taking a lead from those who have even in this thread fought to uphold the right of each individual to be different and express things in their own way according to their own light, you may choose to resist and contest what you see as naturalizing and hegemonic “straight dope” conventions.
I won’t call him/her “him” or “her” until she/he tells me what he/she prefers. Haven’t seen a preference here, so I defaulted to what I’ve taken as a majority of posts referring to him/her as a male.
Is this really an issue? Whether I refer to him/her as “him” or “her”? Doesn’t matter to me. Again, I insult the sensibilities of some. You go ahead and tell me how I should refer to Johanna IRT gender and I’ll follow suit.
God forbid I get that wrong. :rolleyes:
Yes, it’s really an issue, and I haven’t seen her refer to herself as a he since she came out.
My opinion exactly.
(bolding mine)
It might be easier to get comfortable with one’s self if others respected how one chooses to identify. Could you BE any more disrespectful???
Don’t be a jackass. Obviously gender and its classification is important to many transgendered people or they wouldn’t be transgendered.
For godsakes, duffer, I think it’s obvious by now that Johanna would prefer to be called “she”.
Don’t be such a jackass.
Well, it’s obvious from Duffer’s past posts that she doesn’t know better, and that she doesn’t care whether or not she offends anyone.
I thought Polycarp was a man? Not saying he’s got no balls too?!
The fact I never knew about the issue before this thread means I’m a prick for not knowing whether to use “he” or “she”?
Did anyone notice where I mentioned there were limited contacts with said Doper? I was offering what I interpreted based on the wording of the post in quoted in the OP. The gender preference in reference may be obvious to most of you, less so for me. (And if it was obviously stated in other interactions, it didn’t make an indelible impression as it may have with the rest of you).
But if anyone wants to take issue with it, have at it. The cliques around here are more ingrained than junior high kids. I’ve gotten used to it.
Then call me a janeass. How do you know what I feel about gender identity? :dubious:
Thats a fair point.
I didn’t say she could speak for all, nor did I say or assume that she would ‘get’ everyone. I also didn’t say that she would be able to speak to all issues that every GLBTQTSTVTGIS and however many letters there are now, people. I was simply using her as an example of someone with a (to most of us) unique perspective that would challenge a lot of assumptions people tend to go through life with. Hell even as a gay male I need to be challenged on my gender/identity assumptions, especially when I don’t realize they are there.
Forgive me for trying to make a positive point about someone. :dubious:
Russell
Of course, since she has never been of male gender, merely a woman inhabiting a man’s body, Johanna would not be able to speak as a man, or from a man’s standpoint. So, she is in fact like the rest of us, not really “special” at all. Which, is, I am sure, just how she would like it.
Even a lot of male cross-dresses wish to be called “she” while in women’s clothing. Or what about the people who prefer to be called by “hir,” “ze,” and that other crap? Even if you try to be as PC as entirely possible you will still offend someone. 
That’s it, I’m buying you a drink.
I completely agree. Johanna, you are trying too hard, stop trying.