I could see a progression to where people use they/them as a form of linguistic politeness towards people that they don't explicitly know the pronouns/gender of, which English doesn't have a whole lot of.
I theythemm everyone as much as possible. It is so much easier than typing "he/she" and "his/hers", etc. as I would do previous to neutral pronouns being normalized. Literally nobody has taken offense by my use of they/them. I've had many instances where I have accidentally misgendered someone, especially when dealing with non-Western names, but not since I started using they/them.
10/10. Would theythemm again
Isn't this very close to what dronerights got banned for? Saying that they/them is not a gendered pronoun set when in fact it is the pronouns for nonbinary people?
Thank you, it's still hard for me to order the categories correctly in my head.
I'm nonbinary transfem, use she/her exclusively and view they/them as misgendering me because these are not my fucking pronouns. Nonbinary people aren't a monolith, nonbinary isn't a gender, it's a catchall term for an infinite number of gender identities and expressions and we go by all kinds of pronouns. If i wouldn't tell people i'm nonbinary, it would be impossible to tell the difference between me and a "binary trans woman", whatever that is.
