forestinei know it's not the most dire of things that are happening but noticing people addressing men and women, 'ladies and gentlemen' and pretending nonbinary people don't exist and it feels like we lost 20 years of language inclusion. anyone else notice that?
asking people who join ems for their pronouns is also feeling more important as we can no longer assume most people will be normal about it. plus we lost a long time member who had a pronoun meltdown
and the fucking number of people putting jokes in the pronoun field like 'deez nuts' is at an alltime high
i remember bristling at people addressing 'guys, gals, and nonbinary pals' but now they don't address us at all. well guess we weren't your pals, huh
anyway it's a good idea to keep explicitly mentioning things like pronouns in your communities as it shows you're still okay to be around and also does a great job of filtering out transphobic assholes who shouldn't get to go stealth just because the pendulum has swung back
Damon 
@forestine I'm a binary trans person, so I apologize if I'm overstepping with my take here but my theory is that the increasing visibility of trans people in general, regardless if theyre nonbinary or not, has created a fragility in cis people that then makes them double down on the binary, bioessentialist, intersexist gender system that they already know. Nonbinary people will always be the first erased in this, as history has repeatedly shown. Gender roles become even stricter for binary trans people, if theyre shown any grace at all. Gender roles become even stricter for people in general, cis or trans, but I digress. Binary gendered, especially cisgendered people, will immediately drop nonbinary people during these times of increased gender violence because it protects them, to shirk the gender binary is an immediate threat to the preexisting patriarchal system that has existed for millenia. I think it's much greater than just trump, but he's a violent perpetrator of that system nonetheless.