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Transgender activists are authoritarian assholes, so I refuse to use any kind of pronoun to validate the idea that human beings can literally change sex or negate sex out of principle. It might have been okay before this foolishness started, but not any more. Sorry to the Blaire Whites of the world and other sane transgenders, but I can't make an exception for you. I'm not going to use pronouns to validate the "good trans" like some kind of patronizing reward, so it's just a blanket ban from me. If pronouns aren't a courtesy for me, then they aren't for you, either.

That doesn't mean I'm oblivious to the fact that even TRAs can feel real anguish at being called the opposite sex pronoun from the one they want, but most of the time it's possible to remain equivocal on sex and avoid being specific with pronouns.

That said, there's no particular reason to use "he" for males and "she" for females other than custom and common understanding, like all language. English could in theory switch to a sex neutral pronoun and be comprehensible. I don't like "they" because it mixes singular and plural. If a sex nonconforming person prefers to be called a pronoun that the opposite sex uses and isn't doing it because they want me to pretend they've changed sex, I don't think I'd be against it. I'm okay with "he/him lesbians".