There is a handful or co workers that just don't give respect, so I don't give them respect either... I've given them chances with being respectful, until they constantly every day have to be reminded, to then from what my manager said "is that you are entitled to yell at them" in which sometimes I get aggravated enough to do so. Like at one point I had to slam the office door on both my assistant manager and a previous supervisor, so they would understand that they are disrespecting me in which they need to get their act together.
Though other than that instance, I dont have much issue other than a cashier that has been with the company for like 40 plus years. When I had asked her to conform to gender me respectively, she basically rolled her eyes and scoffed at me, even though when I did come out to the workplace she had told me she supported me. I guess support and respect are two complete different things.
On the bright side, the supervisor who did not want to put any gender on me but to have me referenced only by my name, is starting to come around and actually place the correct gender on me, only in the sheer effect that my manager and both new assistant managers have been doing so since day one for each respectively. Only in pure exhaustive happenstance a slip happens and they apologize right away.
But on a note to the whole discussion thereof the article from Cindy, I see this as a good thing for when I ask the majority of my family, parents and extended family, to refer to me as. My cousin, who I had told already is doing so as her own doing, and not having me asking her to do so, also refers to me as Kate, even in the last Christmas letter deal, was specified to my mom and Kate, rather than the name I don't like. Even though most of the extended family does not know quite yet. They will learn soon enough, especially as I have not really hidden myself in any case on the family events that I have been to.
Kate <3
