In another comment I wrote I made the comment that I don't much care how other people choose to speak or act.
I care when they tell me how I must speak and act, specifically when they tell me that cultural norms and rules of grammar must now be different because of their feelings.
What expertise do you have to credibly cast doubt on the self-descriptions of gender-neutral people? Have you seriously researched this? Or are you allowing your feelings to have an undue impact?
Edit: To be fair, I think most people agree this can be taken too far. For example, I don't think we need dozens of new pronouns -- I don't believe there is scientific or psychological evidence for doing so (although I am willing to be corrected about this). But slightly stretching the usage of a single existing pronoun ("they"), in a way that is not entirely new, seems like a pretty small ask.
Cast doubt? I haven't. I've simply stated the attempt to force me to use incorrect language constructs based on their beliefs is not useful and has not been successful.
Quite frankly, I don't care how other people choose to speak. I care when people try to tell me how I must speak.
> Quite frankly, I don't care how other people choose to speak.
Are you not a human who interacts with other humans? You don't care if your colleagues or friends refer to you in a derogatory manner? Or any number of countless other examples where the language of someone else may affect you... Let's be honest and forthright, please.
