hockeybabe89 posted...
So I take it you never use pronouns for anyone? Since you have a big heart and don't want to accidentally out them?
Why wouldn't I use them? I make an inferred guess based on their presentation, like most people would. It isn't the end of the world if I'm wrong.
Then most people can write them down no problem. I don't see very many people withholding their first name when prompted. Pronouns are no different.
They
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different, though. I don't have any issue with identifying socially/publicly by my legal name. But I don't identify with any particular gender, which means I also don't identify with any particular pronoun.
If the fact that I don't care what I'm called and have nothing meaningful to put in a "pronoun" field on a name tag makes trans/LGBT people uncomfortable somehow, tough shit. I am not obligated to have a preferred pronoun, and nobody else is entitled to the information even if I did, either. They are going to need to find some other way to derive their "comfort" from that doesn't involve infringing upon my own.