The accessible and inclusive way of asking for pledges is to email or otherwise contact candidates directly asking for their pledges.

This way of asking for agreement to pledges is inaccessible and exclusionary and not what I'd expect from this group.

No, Equity, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in this context! Sorry!

i must work harder at being trans, pretty good sounds like a challenge xD

how does mine shake out

Any form of insulting a person based on their intelligence is ableist.

"Apparently intelligent people" can be misinformed, ignorant, a bigot. Insulting their intelligence helps no one and actively harms people.

As a disabled trans person I am constantly exhausted by the ableism from "allies".

Yes. It has been since the word was made. Insulting folks based on intelligence is ableist towards those with learning disabilities.

Ignorant would usually work, though SA is absolutely aware of what he's doing here. Intelligence and bigotry do not correlate. Dense is also ableist. I'd suggest doing some reading into the origins of words and just generally not insulting folks based on their intelligence or mental capacity.

I am absolutely sick of people acting like bigotry is a sign of low intelligence or that it has something to do with your ability ro read or spell. You didn't mean it like that? Then don't fucking say it like that.

Could you try not to use ableist language to describe bigots.

Please can we stop using ableist language to describe bigots???? Like absolutely minimum. Hard to want to keep fighting for trans rights (my own rights!) when ableism and ignorance is so prevelant.

There are other reasons I love this game, tonnes, but being seen, really seen, being respected, getting to both speak to trans elders in game and *be one* in game, it's just. It is a lot, and maybe one day it will be more normal, but I don't know if it'll ever hit quite like this again.

Veilguard comes along and sure, there are problems, but.

I get to play a non binary character, with top surgery scars, voiced by a non binary actor, who has multiple options on *how* you express being trans, you get to support an nbi companion, and there are multiple trans characters just around.