Culture has always had a peculiar way in evolving. Times change and sometimes we have to jump on the next cultural meme in order to move on. Gender pronouns are such a case. No longer he or she are the "normal" accepted ones. We now have to remember this entire clusterfuck in order to communicate. Or do we have to?
I don't mind people having their own pronouns. I don't mind who they sleep with and what they believe about sex. What I am allergic to is being required by law to follow their wishes. Today, one can easily be called racist or abusive if they fail to address people in the pronoun or their preference.
The trans community or social activists call for respect. In my dictionary, respect is earned not given away freely. This gender pronoun charade is nothing but another chapter of political correctness that seems to be plaguing society — all in the cost of freedom. As a result, places like universities have become "safe spaces" where people seek safety rather than education. Somehow we all have to conform to the wishes of some people in the trans community or face the law. Ridiculous.
Nobody should respect anything that undermines freedom of speech. If one cannot bear the thought of someone speaking their mind then might as well kill themselves. Life get's much more complicated than that and in many different ways. The world is anything but a safe place. In order to survive in this life one has to develop thick skin, and not invent laws and prohibitions in order to protect their feelings. These laws make the trans community more vulnerable, not stronger.
It has become so ridiculous that even talking about these issues is against the law in some States. Apparently, the politicians in an attempt to gather up as many votes as possible, have decided to offer to minority groups so many legal privileges that end up undermining the freedom of the rest of the population. This is exactly how freedom is sacrificed in the altar of safety.
You are a gay or straight man that likes dressing up like a woman? Fine. No problem. There is no need to advertise your position, no need to resort to legal means or even invent pronouns that others have to follow. You are not "gender queer", you are just a man that likes to dress up like a woman.
Personally I don't even agree with the entire transgender thing. There are two genders in our species. Male and female. That's it. Anything more than that is just made up bullshit. Sure, you allowed to believe your bullshit — much like everyone else — but you don't have to force others to do so. Bill Nye in 1996 had this video explaining how there are only 2 genders. Fast forward 20 years and apparently our species has evolved to include a "spectrum". Ridiculous. Bill Nye is yet another victim and tool of political correctness. There is no "science" to this. Just opinion. Yet this another example of how science gets sacrificed in the same of politics.
Now, I don't doubt that some people are born with hormonal abnormalities or even with 2 sexual organs. These cases exist. Nonetheless, the vast majority of these rare and exceptional cases are undergoing surgery early on in order to avoid health and social adaptation problems. There is no excuse for making gender queering a fashion statement that has to be backed up by law. Gaining a few votes from people that just want social approval for their fetishes is just ridiculous.
Feelings are not more important than words. Freedom cannot be subjected to societal trends of any fashion. Thankfully, we have people like Jordan Peterson that defend the right of freedom of speech and demolish these absurd arguments about gender pronouns. Political correctness is chipping away what once meant to be free. People see and experience the world differently but those views should never be enforced onto one another.
