Why are people so against shifting language to be more inclusive?
"Ladies and gentlemen" should be distinguished guests/folks (or something else along those lines.)
"Men, women, and children" should be adults and children.
"Girls and boys/men and women" should be people. Or, if you must, girls, boys, & enbies or men, women, & enben.
"Brothers and sisters" should be siblings.
"Aunts and uncles" should be piblings.
"Nieces and nephews" should be niblings.
"Mothers and fathers" should be parents.
"Sons and daughters" should be children.
"Husbands and wives/boyfriends and girlfriends" should be partners.
"Masculinizing or feminizing HRT" should be T or E, or - if you want to be more specific - androgenizing, micro-androgenizing, estrogenizing, micro-estrogenizing, androestrogenizing, or micro-androestrogenizing.
"Transmascs & transfems" should be trans people (as transandrogynous, transneutral, transnull, transgenderless, transxenine, transoutherine, transaporine, multigender, and mixed gender people also exist.)
"AFAB and AMAB" should be raised/perceived as female or raised/perceived as male (as intersex people can be given reassigned genders after birth and/or socially imposed genders, meaning that they could be raised/treated in contradiction to what they were assigned at birth)
Why is it that, even in the queer community, binary concepts of gender and sex are still pushed?
(This isn't referring to your own personal connections. For example, if you have only aunts & uncles, saying "aunts and uncles" isn't wrong when referring to your own personal family. Its when you apply this as a generalized statement about other people that it becomes an issue.)
