Thank you for your reply. I appreciate the step forward.
While it is a step forward that finally, after three-plus weeks of asking, there is a rule protecting our pronoun use, the rest of new guidelines show that the Staff still fails to recognise the reasons behind all this. The inherent core issues, if you will. When lgbtqia+ people are tone policed and treated as if standing up for ourselves is just as bad as those acting in bigoted manner, it still denies our personhood and our agency.
Considering the new guidelines as written have bolstered the Staff as being correct in their treatment of us in our reaction to the transmisia, unfortunately ultimately means the apology is lipservice because when something comes up (not just for lgbtqia+, but race, or other things as well!) in the future the same will repeat. Change needs to occur so things do not repeat.
The rule that our pronouns must be used is great, I really do appreciate that. It is a step forward, and if this were 3 weeks ago when first pointed out, this would have solved it! Unfortunately, this is no longer just the original incident, it is also the actions of the Staff in the following weeks which has showcased this much deeper issue. I am glad Staff has realized they got it wrong, but I fail to see any understanding of how wrong, based on reading the actual text of the new guidelines, and the lack of apology for how we were treated by Staff - not just the act of misgendering (which Staff now has apologized for - thank you) but in the actions the Staff took to prevent us from defending ourselves when it became clear that our many calm extremely well written extremely detailed posts were ignored. Or, for example, even some outright support of transmisic posts (shown by Staff likes of said posts).
There are these deep ingrained issues that require addressing, that the writing of the new guidelines defends & protects the Staff from actually addressing. The use-correct-pronoun issue is solved. The circumstances and guidelines that allowed the issue in the first place, is not.
Without fixing the core of the problems, the problem still exists, it will just pop up in another way next time. It won’t be pronouns thanks to the new rule, but it will be something else. The goal, I believe, should be to prevent that next time all together.