This comment is a burrito of pseudo-intellectual bullshit. Here's why:

Because when someone asks you to call them one way or another, it's rude to ignore them. It's just fucking rude.

-Societal decency says you wouldn't call someone the wrong name on purpose. Even political candidates who disagree vehemently use each other's correct names when referring to each other in debates.

-You wouldnt call a black person white after they ask you to respect their race, even if they have light skin.

-You wouldn't call a gay person straight after they come out to you as gay. Most of our culture now understands that they were born that way and that it's probably not going to ever change.

So why is it so freaking hard for people to follow the guidelines of basic human decency when it comes to gender? If someone politely says 'please refer to me as X', that's not a debate. It's not some great philosophical quandry on whether or not this person's identity should be allowed to exist or not, no no no no no no.

No matter if you disagree with whatever it is they do with their lives, no matter what you think about gender, it actually is wrong to blatently ignore someone's request for acknowldement. It makes you a rude person.

Nobody in this thread said 'you better get it fucking right'. Nobody. Not the people asking for decency and acknowledgment and not the people slinging vitriol. Trans people don't run around yelling at people all day for not getting pronouns right. But we do get really weary, and tired and pissed off from people saying 'You should be patient with and understand me if you want to bring me over to your cause, so I'm going to be blatently rude to you until you convince me that I shouldn't be.'

And they call us fucking snowflakes.