Even if I refer to you using a gendered third-person pronoun (she/he), I'm still going to use a genderless second-person pronoun when I address you as 'you', because in English I have no choice. Again, if your community has come up with gendered terms for this (eg shou/hyou), let me know, and I'll try to remember that.

But really, wouldn't we all be better off just dropping gendered pronouns altogether?

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As with unisex toilets, if most people use unigender pronouns, then misgendering stops being a thing people can do. At least without very obviously being an old fogie using archaic language to yell at clouds ('look, she's shading my yard, get thee hence foul vapour!'). Accidental misgendering would become all but impossible.

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Unlike a bunch of the really useful pronouns we've ditched from English (eg thee/thou/thine as the singular of you/yours), a language doesn't need gendered pronouns. Te Reo Māori, Mandarin Chinese and many other languages get along just fine without them.

Now that the gendered pronouns in English are actually causing social division, I think their time is over. I can't make that decision for anyone else's use of language, but I'm publicly announcing that I've made it for mine.

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I'm very lucky to have always felt very comfortable being embodied as a male. Identifying fully as a 'man' was hard won, coming well into my 30s. But it's like a well worn pair of boots now. I can't imagine I'll ever feel misgendered by he/him.

All this serves as context for another flag; despite mocking profile pronouns, I'm getting on the bandwagon. From now on, I'm going to like being referred to as they/them. But purely as the corollary of preferring genderless pronouns in general.

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