Sex Education Lesson (Re: 3rd June IRC Meet)

[A. Mani]

Hi,


Teaching assignment for me again.


This is from the #wfs-india IRC meet log on 3rd June
(I logged in sometime later):
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<kaustavdm> hellooooooooo [21:39]
<satabdi> hi [21:41]
<kaustavdm> meeting?
<satabdi> i am extremely sorry
<satabdi> got late
<satabdi> yes
<kaustavdm> oh no problem
<satabdi> lets get started
<satabdi> but there are so few people
<kaustavdm> is there anyone else here?
<satabdi> Mani is not there [21:42]
<kaustavdm> ya
<kaustavdm> so what do we do?
<satabdi> hm
<kaustavdm> wait for 10 more minutes?
<satabdi> since he is not here, we can not discuss much about the poster
competition [21:43]
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Now everybody in most of my circles know that I am trans-woman and am
transitioning.

Gendered references if any to trans persons should be in accordance
with their target gender or gender identity.
Anything else would be insensitive and cruel.

Since "we" speak of gender equality and related things, I see a
grotesque contradiction here and too many literate people will say the
same.


Please learn.



Best

A. Mani


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[Kaustav Das Modak]

Mani, sorry I was pretty busy last night and overlooked that part in a
hurry, otherwise I would have corrected Satabdi back there.


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[Satabdi Das]

Now everybody in most of my circles know that I am trans-woman and am
transitioning.

Mani,

I didn't know and I assumed a wrong identity for you. I am sorry and it won't happen again.

Satabdi

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[Debamitro Chakraborti]

Hey Mani,

Even I also didn't know that you are a trans-woman. I guess many people don't. But I think such misunderstandings are common enough -- specially over email/chat. For example my name got shortened as 'Deb' to an American guy and he figured I must be a girl since he could only map it to the name 'Deborah' :-) I can give lots of examples where gender identity is wrongly assumed in common speech when two people converse electronically for the first time
Let's not get offended for such small misunderstandings

Regards,

Debamitro

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[A. Mani]

On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 1:07 PM, Satabdi Das <satab...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>

> Mani,
>
> I didn't know and I assumed a wrong identity for you. I am sorry and it
> won't happen again.

Fine, it is always better if people know.