# Please stop using singular they for posters who have an established gender

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> [@Babale](#):
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> Because that implies that a trans woman is not a woman.

&nbsp; Why should that be a problem?&nbsp; As a matter of undeniable, immutable scientific fact, a _“trans woman”_ is a man, and not, in any rational sense, any kind of woman.

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