Citations:mispronoun

English citations of mispronoun

Verb: "to refer to (someone) using third-person pronouns other than their preferred gender pronouns"

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• 2014, Holiday Simmons, Fresh! White, “Our Many Selves”, in Laura Erickson-Schroth, editor, Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender Community, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 17:

  At times, people mispronoun us, calling us by incorrect pronouns, or misgender us, assuming incorrect genders. Mispronouning and misgendering can be intentional or unintentional.

• 2016, Corona Brezina, Coming Out as Transgender, page 10:

  If someone messes up in using your pronouns, correct them calmly but firmly, and tell them that it's hurtful when they "mispronoun" you. Losing your temper won't help resolve the matter.

• 2016, Shannon Dea, Beyond the Binary: Thinking about Sex and Gender, unnumbered page:

  The reason that some trans-positive bloggers were anxious about Sawyer's use of masculine pronouns for Jenner is that they worried that Sawyer and others were mispronouning Jenner in just this way.

• 2016, Lyn Merryfeather, You've Changed: An Evocative Autoethnography, pages 108-109:

  I talked about him all the time since it was my first lesbian relationship and I 'mispronouned' him all the time, calling him 'her' and 'she' and that was just so disrespectful, […]

• 2017, Talia Mae Bettcher, "Trans 101", in The Philosophy of Sex: Contemporary Readings (eds. Raja Halwani, Alan Soble, Sarah Hoffman, & Jacob M. Held), page 124:

  Pervasive subjection to microaggressions, such as being constantly "sir-ed," mispronouned, and so on, can have an impact on one's psychological wellbeing, […]

• 2017, Rachel McKinnon, "Allies Behaving Badly: Gaslighting as epistemic injustice", in The Routledge Handbook of Epistemic Injustice (eds. Ian James Kidd, José Medina, & Gaile Pohlhaus, Jr.), page 171:

  If Victoria doesn't feel that she can sufficiently trust Susan to help her out when James, for example, mispronouns her, then Victoria may simply cease to eat lunch with her colleagues.

• 2019, C. J. Venable, Kyle Inselman, & Nick Thout, "Negotiating Fit While 'Misfit': Three Ways Trans Professionals Navigate Student Affairs", in Debunking the Myth of Job Fit in Higher Education and Student Affairs (eds. Brian J. Reece, Vu T. Tran, Elliott N. DeVore, & Gabby Porcaro), unnumbered page:

  When trans people are forced to correct others after being mispronouned, they are reminding those they correct that their assumptions regarding both the individual in question and the larger system of gender are wrong.

• 2019 September 17, CDB, “Re: On Consistency in The Politics of Language”, in alt.usage.english‎^[1] (Usenet):

  That is a practical question in my country, where the thoroughly woke government has proclaimed legislation to make mispronouning a matter for the human-rights tribunals, non-judicial bodies which nevertheless have the power to impose heavy fines on the defiant.

• 2019 September 18, Adam Funk, “Re: On Consistency in The Politics of Language”, in alt.usage.english‎^[2] (Usenet):

  In what context? If you accidentally mispronoun someone in the pub, or if you do it to a subordinate at work after being corrected already?

• 2020, Heather Bryant, My Trans Parent: A User Guide for When Your Parent Transitions, page 117:

  How do you handle when someone mispronouns or misgenders your parent?