Re:John Sullivan resign as executive director of the Free So...
by DanBC on Monday March 29, 2021 @06:40AM
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I feel like you're stuck on the reference to the guidelines. People are combing the guidelines with other things RMS has said about the word "they".
RMS has spent several years railing against "them"/"they", based on his flawed understanding of English.
> Is that all it takes to qualify as a transphobe person, despite all the other points?
If you know my pronouns are he/him but you decide that you can't use those and insist on using they/them instead then yes, you have an irrational dislike of trans people and you're a transphobe, unless you can show that you only use gender neutral pronouns for everyone.
RMS has spent several years railing against "them"/"they", based on his flawed understanding of English.
> Is that all it takes to qualify as a transphobe person, despite all the other points?
If you know my pronouns are he/him but you decide that you can't use those and insist on using they/them instead then yes, you have an irrational dislike of trans people and you're a transphobe, unless you can show that you only use gender neutral pronouns for everyone.