here to ask your office for examples of non binary malgendering.. i know i experienced it but i'm having trouble putting it into words. only thing that is super obvious is people telling me i have no human rights because all law texts use "he or she".
Of course, I welcome anybody to come and share their experience!
I’ve heard this before, it’s a rather common response to people that don’t use he or she pronouns, i’ve also seen a similar effect, especially in the early days when a lot of of countries were changing their wording around their documents, say the same thing with male or female rep replacing he or she. I have always viewed that specific wording a direct threat, the logical implications of it leaves no good faith interpretation. It is absolutely an instance of malgendering!
A very interesting phenomenon I have noticed in malgendering rhetoric against non male/female people is just the level of dehumanization that they use. A lot of it goes back to this specific rhetoric that the enemy is not human, which is tenant of basically all forms of bigotry, transphobia included! But almost malgendering in non male/female is to fully strip us of our humanity. Saying where you don’t have human right, equating them to animals, aliens, or demons.
I’ll give you a non-common example, people with animals Xenogenders. It’s rehashed hate statement(can’t really think of another word for it) used against non-humans and furrys, the classic
“If you really identified as (insert animal) you’ll let me do (insert some type of violence against that animal usually hunting or even sometimes sexual) to you”
Next i’ll give you a personal example. Probably we should get some pre-text to this, I’m rather androgynous, and I wear make up I wear a lot of make up. I wear face paint basically all day, and it’s fun as hell. So I was visiting Roswell NM, gotta tell you that part of New Mexico is not that progressive. I was really excited to go do a whole photo shoot in the museum there, themed my make up to make me look like an alien and all. I wear my vein badge around because like people stare at me for a little while when they first meet me, wondering what pronouns to call me. I go into this gift shop right, search for a little while this guy at the counter is staring at me the whole time. Again, that’s not unusual, I purposely make myself stand out. I find what I want. I go to the counter and I hear a “ah of course ““they/they””, you look like one aliens out side.” I laughed. I nodded. I handed him the card. I left. The aliens outside was referring to a mural of green little aliens getting out of a spaceship, motherfucker, I wasn’t even Green, you got the color wrong bitch! Hehehe, also we switched while writing this so if the style has changed, yeah!
This is not technically malgendering but it follows a very similar rhetoric pattern
“of course you have blue hair and pronouns”
Now this does not specifically target non-binary people, but it is a very very common throwback to non-binary people. It is at the the end of the day “look at you, of course you hold those opinions, of course you’re trans”, which I would say is a very similar rhetoric to this.
IDK I’m still hurting a lot from the oral surgery that I had not that long ago(we got all four of our wisdom teeth removed), if I probably spent like another hour, staring at this document, I probably could name some more things, buttttt, I am a sinful being and I am lazy and I am hungry and I’m going to get food.