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50 Things I'd Rather Do Than Listen To You Misgender Me Again

If you don't know my pronouns, just ask.

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50 Things I'd Rather Do Than Listen To You Misgender Me Again
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In case you didn't know, I'm transgender. I identify and present myself as male. I would like to think that I pass rather well as a guy, but there come those times when people just don't quite see it that way. That's when I get misgendered. Misgendered is when people call me or any other transgender person the wrong pronouns. For example, my pronouns are he/him/his. Sometimes, when people don't perceive me as the gender I identify as they may refer to me as she/hers. Obviously, this is a problem, and I hate when it happens. Here are 50 things I'd rather do than be misgendered again.

1. Stub my toe

2. Step on a lego

3. Drink orange juice right after brushing my teeth.

4. Put salt instead of sugar in my coffee.

5. Listen to someone next to me chew very loudly.

6. Watch paint dry.

7. Listen to Donald Trump talk for 3 hours straight.

8. Attempt to find a parking spot at my university.

9. Take a drink of cold water with a piece of mint gum in my mouth.

10. Sit in a room full of venomous snakes.

11. Listen to a conservative complain about gay people.

13. Debate politics at the dinner table on Thanksgiving.

14. Have to wear wet socks around for an entire week.

15. Never eat pasta again.

16. Watch "The Human Centipede" on repeat for 24 hours straight.

17. Listen to country music.

18. Write a 20-page research paper on shoelaces.

19. Attend a Trump rally.

20. Get a papercut.

21. Never have Starbucks again.

22. Never have a working lightning cable again.

23. Be attacked by squirrels.

24. Build a solid chocolate mansion in the desert.

25. Keep a great white shark as a pet.

25. Have a mosquito bite that never goes away.

27. Have a hopeless crush on someone who doesn't like me back.

28. Sit on a warm toilet seat.

29. Bite the inside of my cheek every time I started eating.

30. Watch Fox news all day.

31. Have my barista mess up my drink.

32. Relive the 2016 presidential election.

33. Never be able to eat pizza again.

34. Only be able to take cold showers in the winter.

35. Never be able to shower again.

36. Only be able to eat spam for the rest of my life.

37. Give up taking naps.

38. Never being able to ask my professor for an extension again.

39. Major in mathematics.

40. Have to explain to people that I didn't "choose" to be transgender.

41. Have to do my hormone shot with an 8-inch needle.

42. Never get another student discount.

43. Watch grass grow.

44. Sit through a 3-hour lecture on plant biology twice a week.

45. Only be able to wear socks on my hands.

46. Have to awkwardly avoid someone I know at the grocery store.

47. Have really awkward conversations with my professors.

48. Listen to Katy Perry's entire discography.

49. Never being able to watch another episode of Rick and Morty.

50. Watch all fourteen seasons of Keeping Up With the Kardashians.

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