just a small thing re: respectful language

not necessarily. A lot of trans people aren't okay with being referred to as "biologically (the sex they were assigned at birth)." Most trans women consider themselves female, and most trans men consider themselves male. I don't know Zeke personally or know what verbiage he is or isn't okay with being used to describe him, but if he's like the majority of trans men I know, he probably considers himself "male" and probably doesn't subscribe to the narrative that he was "born female", because Zeke is the person who he was always supposed to be. It just becomes tricky territory because to say a trans person was "born male" or "born a man" or whatever else can contribute to the idea they're deceptive, that the way they present themselves is not their "true" gender or sex, that there's some shameful past that needs to be uncovered. To say "assigned female at birth" is kind of a bit more objective and rooted in fact, because, factually, Zeke was assigned female at birth. That assignment doesn't always end up being correct, and in Zeke's case, it wasn't.

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