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The example with Isabel Fall does not fit here, as moderation action against someone like her, or asking/requiring those types of pronouns to be changed/removed is not equivalent to the response she received. This sounds like you're saying that moderation action for offensive pronouns will lead to people getting hurt to the degree she did, but it won't, so this is irrelevant.

You didn't address the other user's example of 14/88 as a pronoun, or ones that have explicitly sexual connotations.

Would you also take no action if someone used the n-word (hard r), the f-slur etc? Or obviously sexual ones like Master or Daddy? Would you require minors to also use these pronouns so they don't misgender that person?

This all is just being tolerant to a fault. I myself am trans, I am supportive of neopronouns and xenogenders, but there's a limit. And that is when other people are getting hurt or made extremely uncomfortable, and when it's just obvious that it's in bad faith.

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Plant-Based Meat Alternatives Healthier And Better For The Planet, Report Finds

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a heck load of chemicals injected into a block of soy beans paste.

Everything's a chemical, this is just language used to make things sound scary. The taurin that cats need that isn't found in vegan cat food is identical to the taurin in meat.

Additionally WE can make that choice but cats that are obligatory carnivore would never choose vegan as they are obligated to do so.

If you're so concerned about a cat having a supposedly harmful (the science on this disagrees with you, to be clear) choice made for itself by the human who is keeping it, why are you fine with the choices made for the animals that are kept in awful conditions and then killed for cat food with meat in it? Those animals are also kept by humans and have choices made for them that are unnatural to them, and they are most certainly being harmed.

If a vegan diet is ethical for a cat is unknown.

The science on this is pretty clear, and there are plenty of examples of cats thriving on a vegan diet for many many years. Of course, it's important to consult a specialist and give the cat regular checkups if switching its diet like this.

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cis (as the prefix in cisgender) is literally just the Latin term for "on this side of", opposite of trans = "on the other side of".

It's the exact same thing as heterosexual & homosexual, both from Greek, standing for hetero (from heteros) = different, and homo (from homos) = same.

Is the term "straight" also not ok, just gay people and "normal" people? And same for homosexual and "normal" people, and trans and "normal" people?