When the Globe offered staff the chance to have our ‘preferred pronouns’ printed on our passes, I finally felt confident enough to express my true identity. Now that I was armed with this new knowledge about the alleged importance of self-ID, it was the time to come out as a queen. After all, in a world where you can be anything, why not be monarch of the realm? Especially knowing that anyone who refused to comply will be silenced and shunned.
With some trepidation, I ‘came out’ at work. I asked for my pronouns – ‘Her Majesty / Her Highness’ – to be printed on my staff pass to make me feel validated and affirmed. There was instant pushback, but I was prepared.
I was told that ‘queen’ is not a gender. But, I protested, that goes against the assertions of transgender writer Kate Bornstein, who claims anything can be a gender. Bornstein’s book is recommended on the Globe’s own website. Surely, we should be practising what we preach? If we advocate for self-ID and say we should believe that people are what they say they are, then why should I be the exception? By the trans activists’ own twisted logic, refusing to affirm my royal identity made them bigots.
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