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When allies become enforcers of your identity

I came out as nonbinary to my progressive friends who now police my pronouns more aggressively than I ever asked them to.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Well-intentioned advocacy can transform personal identity into public performance, removing individual agency from self-definition.

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Worth thinking about

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