Call trans people by their correct pronouns. Yes even if they’re the worst person ever.
Because being a bad person doesn’t make them not their gender. And when you misgender bad trans people you tell ALL trans people that you think we have to earn our pronouns through good behaviour in a way that cis people don’t have to.
When cis people do awful things that doesn’t suddenly make them not their gender. You don’t call a man rapist “she” or a woman murderer “he” So why should it be different for trans people unless you think our genders are less real? And you hurt all of us through that.
My pronouns are not conditional. I don’t have to earn them through good behaviour. You’re not doing me a favour by using them for me. It’s just basic human decency.
Misgendering a bad trans person is disrespecting all trans people because you are showing us that you think our genders are less real than cis people’s genders and that you only call us our correct pronouns as a “reward.”
Use the correct pronouns. No matter what the person has done.
