Seriously, who cares?

[meadowlander]

23. One of the central cultural tragedies in the US is peoples' inability to mind their own business.

It makes it way too easy to manufacture outrage over stupid bullshit which, as you say, doesn't actually impact them in the slightest while ignoring things like lower wages, underfunded infrastructure and natural hazards responses, and proposed Medicare or Social Security cuts which actually do.

On the pronoun thing, it makes about as much sense for me to get in a huff over someone asking me to refer to them as them as it does if they asked me to use a nickname or an unusual pronunciation of their name.

But I'm a grown ass adult who understands boundaries and that someone elses' fundamental right to identify themselves how they like trumps the minor inconvenience to me of having an extra thing to remember about them. It's a shame the US in general is so psychologically and culturally impoverished so few of its citizens are able to understand basic boundary issues like that.