BlueSharkEnjoyer@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoAutism@lemmy.world•I wish I knew, for my entire life, why people will choose to sit in any other seat before they choose to sit near me on transit. Do I exude autism?English
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1 year agoThis is called the “bus rule” around here, you don’t sit beside someone if there’s a still a set of seats you can have to yourself.
I’d be more worried if they did sit beside you, as that’d be considered a bit creepy.
It varies in practice. Most people I see using identify, including many trans people, are well-intentioned and think it’s the preferred polite language without thinking too hard on the implications of it.
However there are definitely anti-trans people who will use it pejoratively, which I presume is where that wording originated.