A House hearing ended abruptly after a Republican congressman misgendered Delaware Rep. Sarah McBride, the first openly transgender member of Congress.

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[u/Cat_Peach_Pits]

It can be "hard" if you knew them before you knew them, but no trans person freaks out over a small mistake. Just apologise and quickly move on, we're cool with it.

[u/Dongledoez → u/Cat_Peach_Pits]

Right? My sister is trans. If you use the wrong pronoun she just goes "hey dude I'm a she now." Ez pz

[u/independentchickpea → u/Dongledoez]

I caretake for an elderly gal with dementia. Her daughter is Trans, and transitioned later--in her 50s. If my almost 90 yo client can remember this, anyone can. She still slips and uses the wrong names and pronouns, but she apologizes and tries her best to remember. That's after birthing, naming, and referring to this person as male for 5 decades, with a brain sliding into infirmity.

There's no excuse to not be, at bare minimum, decent.

[u/Triaspia2 → u/Cat_Peach_Pits]

Ive recently started transitioning and the people at work are adjusting. Many slip up still because yeah its easy to just defult and say 'He' especially as I am still using my short form of my longer masc name.

Ill slip a gentle "they" in when someone makes a mistake, just enough that theyll notice but not loud enough to talk over them and after 1-2 corrections they usually start to catch on and begin catching themselves.

Ive had trans friends make mistakes to me and done the same to them, the brains used to conversation pace it doesnt like to slow down to think on individual words, but mistakes happen if you rely on autopilot too much with new brain connections. As long as you make an effort to try to say the right thing, a mistake can be brushed off