# What's too "Loony Left" for you?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-too-loony-left-for-you/969503>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 11, 2022, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-too-loony-left-for-you/969503 "2022-08-11T18:54:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2022, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-too-loony-left-for-you/969503/243 "2022-08-16T17:33:38Z")

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Moderating:

> [@Typo\_Negative](#):
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> > [@Kimstu](#):
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> > Having a preferred specialized phrase to describe your own gender identity doesn’t mean that you are declaring that phrase to be some kind of officially recognized separate gender category.
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> [MSN](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/the-flash-star-ezra-miller-breaks-silence-after-a-time-of-intense-crisis/ar-AA10HM6T?ocid=entnewsntp&cvid=c765499999494233ae5efbb045e97738*The) Flash\* star
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> > Ezra Miller has broken _their_ silence
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> > Miller, who is nonbinary,
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> Their and Non-Binary = too special for your normal ‘words’ = too loony

I’d like to remind all posters that

> [@Reorganized SDMB rules](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reorganized-sdmb-rules/968857/1):
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> - Please do not state or imply that transgender people are mentally ill. We realize the question remains controversial. However, we’re not going to settle the matter here, and raising it tends to poison other discussion of transgender issues. Please keep your opinions on the subject to yourself.
> - Do not deliberately misgender another poster – that is, refer to them by a pronoun or other sex-specific term indicating a gender other than the one they identify as. This applies only in cases where a poster’s gender identity is reasonably clear. Likewise, do not deliberately misgender off-board figures.

“loony left” is pretty close to an accusation of “mentally ill”, and making a fuss about someone who is nonbinary and uses “they” pronouns is pretty close to deliberately misgendering an off-board figure.

You are obviously free to believe whatever you like in the privacy of your own home. But everyone please drop these examples from your posts here on the SDMB.

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