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Originally Posted by sfshooter
* in order to maintain my wokeness and avoid a ticket to the re-education camps I assume Box's gender as male in this statement only from previous post in which it was garnered that he has retired from a career as a QP and in that time period in order to achieve retirement status there were not female genders, or any of the other gazillion genders allowed in that branch.
If in fact Box now identifies as another gender then I do wholly apologize in advance for my mistake.
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I have not "retired" - I have
transitioned out of the military.
Transitioned - remember that word, I'm going to "circle back" to it.
Late in my career the alphabet of genders (yes, there are now more genders than there are letters in the alphabet - Google it and see for yourself) had broken through the glass ceiling but many of the toxic, cis-gendered white privileged, misogynistic, nationalistic, wrong thinking people that I worked with frowned upon free thinking so I cowered in fear - knowing if I ever revealed my true self there would be hell to pay. The people I worked with are still clinging to their guns and their religion and their antipathy towards others that don't look like them. Some of them even CONTINUE to follow professional sportsball.
When I transitioned - it wasn't just from active duty to "private" contractor. I transitioned from "male" to what I like to refer to as "Box"
There are no acceptable pronouns that can properly encompass the essence of my gender but you can use the following guidelines without offending me...
-My first person pronouns are me-my-MINE.
-My second person pronouns are you-your-yours.
-There cannot be a third person pronoun since there is only one of me but if there
were two of us, we would be referred to as "Boxen"
That right - Box is now a gender - my transition is complete. In your faces. Suck it.
I'm Box and I'm PROUD
...and your apology is accepted.