diff --git a/.codespellignore b/.codespellignore
index e3231908b2..49cfed17ef 100644
--- a/.codespellignore
+++ b/.codespellignore
@@ -28,3 +28,4 @@ couldn
 ges
 assertIn
 thirdparty
+asend
diff --git a/zerver/tornado/handlers.py b/zerver/tornado/handlers.py
index 5fb27131dd..ac15054bf8 100644
--- a/zerver/tornado/handlers.py
+++ b/zerver/tornado/handlers.py
@@ -132,10 +132,7 @@ class AsyncDjangoHandler(tornado.web.RequestHandler):
         # Django's WSGIHandler.__call__ before the call to
         # `get_response()`.
         set_script_prefix(get_script_name(environ))
-        await sync_to_async(
-            lambda: signals.request_started.send(sender=type(self.django_handler)),
-            thread_sensitive=True,
-        )()
+        await signals.request_started.asend(sender=type(self.django_handler))
         self._request = WSGIRequest(environ)
 
         # We do the import during runtime to avoid cyclic dependency