For those MIAD (man in a dress) or other non-binaries, how do you feel about gendered pronouns?
Personally, I am a MAID (well usually a man in a skirt with a t-shirt), and the first time someone use a feminine pronoun on me I was taken back. Actually taken back to all the gender based bullying I received growing up. But I didn't correct them since it didn't seem worth having the conversation. But at least they weren't being mean like the school time bullies. But hearing it a few times now it doesn't surprise me or bother me anymore. I notice I don't use many gendered pronouns for myself very often, but if I do it is always masculine or genderless, never feminine. I just don't see myself that way.
What sparked this thread was I told my son "thank you sir" when he handed me a butter knife I asked for. And I thought why did I need to add the sir? I feel like it is way to show some extra respect, but it also is a gender reinforcement. Ugh, the things I think about randomly