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I had an appointment this morning in Escondido and arrived early. The person assigned to help me asked me if I had brought my two identification documents and I said “Yes Ma’am” and she told me not to call her that. I was surprised but asked her “What?” and the person told me “I’m not a Ma’am”. The rest of our transaction was rather tense and I was sure not to call the person that again when I said “Thank you”. I was raised to say Yes ma’am and No Ma’am and Yes Sir and No Sir and remember getting my butt warmed on several occasions for not using the Ma’am or Sir when addressing someone so it’s pretty engrained in my mind to do so. I told my step daughter about it awhile after it happened and she told me that transitioning and questioning people consider it an insult and hate speech to be referred to as something they’re not. I can’t understand what’s going on in our society anymore if simple politeness can be construed as hate speech.
