Outing through societies favorite question in German

So what do you do? I hate this question not only because it is smalltalk but because you hopefully are a human with more aspects in your life than your "career". But in German we gender every job sometimes in a very direct way Zimmermädchen ~ Maidgirl but often is more subtle when the male one would be Bäcker the female equivalent would be Bäckerin for the English flour handling baker. You just add -in to the end of the job and now it's female. I once heard that is to describe the wife of the male worker so you know you were dealing with a woman and not a superior men. That the reason the whole of TERFs & grammar nazis are talking about gendering.

BUT here is a good thing for a binary trans humans: I can just say "hey I am Mossy and I am working as a Leherin ( female teacher). So now the person in front of me knows that my pronouns are she/her and we can move on. It is outing and telling your pronouns all tightly packaged into one sentence. I even got a stamp saying my job description which is not teacher with the right ending before the SBGG went into affect so our legal naming changing system.

I of course fully acknowledge that this is hell for non binary folks. As you can't even tell what you work as without gendering yourself as a nonbinary ending does not exist (yet) and the default male one implies that he/him pronouns are fine. To be nonbinary in this language is really hard that's why I couldn't live in it in any meaningful way as I lacked the words.

Xoxo Mossy out