being able to choose what gendered words I use for myself in russian is a cool way to assert dominance
Seconded. I started studying Spanish just a few months after coming out as trans. I’d expected all the gendered personal nouns/adjectives to make conversations with new people awkward, but not at all! It gave me the chance to tell them how to refer to me straight out instead of waiting for them to either have to ask or guess wrongly.
And hell, if using that -o suffix for myself doesn’t bring the euphoria every damn time. ¡Me encanta!
Seconded. I started studying Spanish just a few months after coming out as trans. I’d expected all the gendered personal nouns/adjectives to make conversations with new people awkward, but not at all! It gave me the chance to tell them how to refer to me straight out instead of waiting for them to either have to ask or guess wrongly.
And hell, if using that -o suffix for myself doesn’t bring the euphoria every damn time. ¡Me encanta!
yeah its so convinient for us trans people, I’d argue english needs something like this but I’d get shit on pretty bad