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If anyone can find more pixels for me i would appreciate it.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago (16 children)

Why bother with importing y'all when we already have yous (or youse depending on how you want to spell it)? Or you could just treat 'you guys' as gender neutral, it effectively is these days with how people use it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (8 children)

A lot of trans femmes myself included cannot see 'guys' as gender neutral no matter how hard we try and so do not like it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

That's rough. That said as a trans woman (no idea what a trans-femme is) I don't see a problem with it in the context of "you guys".

I use "dude" as a general exclamation towards my own also-trans gf sometimes even. Really y'all oughta chill on the language policing. If you pass people will treat you like the gender you look like, if you don't, they won't really, no matter how much they try, and your main issue is not passing and thus money which can fix that, not other people and their language use.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

Oof. Passing is an archaic concept, just use the language for people that doesn't make them feel uncomfortable.

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