I tried to find an official pronoun policy for LessWrong, LessOnline, EA Global, etc, and couldn’t.
The EA Forum has an explicit policy that you need to use the pronouns the people you’re talking about prefer. EAG(x) doesn’t explicitly include this in the code of conduct but it’s short and I expect is interpreted by people who would consider non-accidental misgendering to be a special case of “offensive, disruptive, or discriminatory actions or communication.”. I vaguely remember seeing someone get a warning on LW for misgendering, but I’m not finding anything now.
I don’t remember ever adjudicating this, but my current intuition, having not thought about it hard, is that I don’t see a super clear line here (like, in a moderation dispute I can imagine judging either way depending on the details).
The EA Forum has an explicit policy that you need to use the pronouns the people you’re talking about prefer. EAG(x) doesn’t explicitly include this in the code of conduct but it’s short and I expect is interpreted by people who would consider non-accidental misgendering to be a special case of “offensive, disruptive, or discriminatory actions or communication.”. I vaguely remember seeing someone get a warning on LW for misgendering, but I’m not finding anything now.
I don’t remember ever adjudicating this, but my current intuition, having not thought about it hard, is that I don’t see a super clear line here (like, in a moderation dispute I can imagine judging either way depending on the details).