Fact of the matter is that it hurts people whether ur intentions were meant to or not, and it's not really up to you to decide when people are allowed to get to be hurt by things like misgendering. It's not a perfect system, but it's making do with the complications of the language we have. They can be a degendering word, which can be degrading to somebody who is constantly degendered. At the same time it's the best word to use as a gender neutral word and sometimes this issue will come up. It's just best to be kind to each other and changing one word is part of that some times.
Fact of the matter is that it hurts people whether ur intentions were meant to or not, and it's not really up to you to decide when people are allowed to get to be hurt by things like misgendering. It's not a perfect system, but it's making do with the complications of the language we have. They can be a degendering word, which can be degrading to somebody who is constantly degendered. At the same time it's the best word to use as a gender neutral word and sometimes this issue will come up. It's just best to be kind to each other and changing one word is part of that some times.