A Boring Dystopia

Never really got this argument. We all also have names, which we “display” in the same contexts (conversation, email signatures, social bios, etc.). If you said “hey, my name is Tregetour, but I’d like it if you called me Treg,” and I responded “Nah, your name was already determined, it’s silly to believe anyone can enforce a preference about their nickname,” sure, you couldn’t enforce that I called you a nickname, but my response would still be a) rude and b) very weird. Societal niceties aren’t a matter of legal enforcement, there’s just a polite option and a bizarre option.

Have you ever had a single real life interaction with someone who puts their pronouns up front and center? Have YOU ever seen someone talk about their pronouns outside of an internet ragebait setting?

I'm not trans. I was born with cock and balls. I had (He/Him) in my work emails until recently. I'm just built like a twink, even when I was a soldier and lifted every day. I've always looked extremely feminine, and get called ma'am by strangers all the time. People call me by whatever pronouns they want, mostly out of confusion. I'll always respond to them if they're not outright doing it to be a contrarian or a pussy-hearted whiny bitch because I look like a girl.

My "ability to enforce a personal preference is limited at best" is actually zero. When you give your preferred pronouns to someone you have no control over them using the right pronouns. You're completely reliant on the kindness of others to not be a piece of shit and make fun of you. That's not a reason to stop giving your pronouns out.

Which is why people put it in places that they can control, like social media bio, signatures in emails etc so that they are lease have it communicated, giving people the ability to use it.

To make it feel normal for trans people to do it, and so people are simply aware.

Look, Steve. You're right that society can force things onto you. But only dickheads do that after they're made aware that they're wrong. Am I making sense, Steve?

I'm on the progressive left (actually, left libertarian, but they represent me best out of all mainstream options). At best, it's treated as a social nicety that we ought to offer each other, because it's perfectly reasonable to expect functioning adults in a society to be polite. It's hardly a meat and bone issue for me, and I think you'll also find that to be true for actual progressive left politicians like Bernie and AOC. Much of the progressive left, despite what Fox or OAN is telling you, is focused on actually fixing economic issues that impact everyone, like the outrageous cost of healthcare.

I agree with what you said, and personally find it stupid, however i wouldn't go and issue a whole policy "to remove pronouns"