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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just say Ms. Carlson.

“Good morning, Ms. Carlson.”
“Hi, Ms. Carson, I have a question.”

If you are [b]talking about her[/b], you can say Ms. Carlson.

“Ms. Carlson asked me to let you know we’re picking Billy up as a walker today.”

“She” is an option that Ms. Carlson lists as a pronoun, so you may say “she.” But you don’t really need to use pronouns when you can simply use someone’s name. [/quote]

You inadvertently undermined your whole argument by using a pronoun. The whole reason our language has pronouns is because constantly using a proper name is awkward and tedious. So it’s not a great answer to breezily dismiss this question with “oh, don’t use pronouns. Who needs them, anyway?”[/quote]

Ms. Carlson literally said it was fine to call her she. It’s a choice given. Are you OK?[/quote]

The problem with a choice is that people will worry they are making the “wrong” one and offend the person, even if the person is telling them that either is fine. Because it inherently doesn’t make sense that someone can have more than one gender identity at the same time. What if someone you know had “he/she” pronouns on their email? You’d wonder which one they actually preferred and whether you were using the right one that day. Because some people have made such a big deal about using the correct pronouns, now many of us are afraid we will be called out for being transphobic for saying the wrong thing. [/quote]

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