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Kungfu Kenobi posted...

I don't think it's very nice to put your problems on everyone else.

They're not putting their problems on anyone else; they're saying "Hey, could you please refer to me as ______?"

If you have a friend in high school who constantly went by the nickname "Asswipe", because he thought it was hilarious when he was 16, him asking you not to call him that anymore when he's 25 because he now finds it embarrassing isn't "putting his problems on everyone else", he's making a request as to how he would like to be addressed. Everyone is entitled to do this - for most of us, it just takes the form of "Call me Steve, not Stephen," or "I'm actually Dr. Johnson, not Mr. Johnson" and no one would think you were overstepping your bounds for making the above requests, so pronouns shouldn't be a big deal either.

Again, they're asking you to change a handful of words, not spin around three times and do ten jumping jacks every time they raise their left hand.
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