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Okay, I get that this is bad. Does anyone have any suggestions to avoid being forced to either out myself or misgender myself?
My pronouns are (jokingly) your/mom but not in a transphobic way, instead in a “I’m nonbinary but I live in the south and don’t feel safe sharing my pronouns however I also don’t want to misgender myself” way
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Anonymous 13w

unfortunately no, pronouns are kind of a specific thing that people use in conversation, and they’ll just guess if you don’t give an answer. Any sort of joke will always show that you’ve seriously thought about pronouns a lot, as well as invite a followup to ask what your actual ones are. I don’t think anyone asking in person is going to be weird to you if you just say “any” though, and leaving stuff blank on forms sounds fine if it doesn’t make you fill it in

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 13w

Yeah it’s mostly the forms that force an answer that make me 😢 I don’t mind people incorrectly assuming my pronouns, but it makes me want to rip my skin off with a fork to actively misgender myself

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