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Originally posted by robustpuppy
I know you're kidding around ... but:
The person self-identifies as a she. Out of respect for her humanity, we should refer to her as a she. "It" is for inanimate objects, not for people who don't fit neatly into gender categories. "She" or "her" might not seem right to you because she's not somebody you would want as your sex partner, wife, sister, or mother, but that doesn't mean she's an "it."
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Look. The joke isn't on "her." It's on me. It's supposed to be funny because I can't quite find the word to describe "her." It's not meant to reduce her to an object.
But that said, I don't care what "she" wants to be called. "She" ain't a "she" because she has a penis. That means "she" is a man, baby. That's the fact, Jack.
Now, if there were some term that made sense, anatomically speaking, that I could use, I would use it. But this "respect for 'her' humanity" argument is crap. I recognize and respect "her" as a human being. The joke is that I don't know what the hell to call "her." The joke isn't, "it's funny to make her inhuman."
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Originally posted by leagleaze
Unfortunately we don't have a third choice in pronouns, it is a shame we can't use em in real life. Generally what people do is call them what they present to be. In this case, female. And if the person is transgendered (as opposed to transexual) the person is her mind is female, though not yet physically completely so. So that makes some sense.
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That makes perfect sense. And if she were here, I would refer to her as a she. But she couldn't get all that offended if I fumbled around trying to figure out what I should call her (which is essentially the joke I made). (Well, I suppose "she" could get offended, I just wouldn't be that upset about it.) 
