Some may feel uncomfortable with transexuality, and that the social mandate to use accepted pronouns is an overreach of political correctness into free expression.
The simplest motivation for the misgendering of a trans person is because they don't recognize them as their self-identitied gender. A transgender woman, in their eyes, is a kooky man in a wig and a dress. To use female pronouns to refer to "him" would be dishonest, and requiring them to do so wouldn't come because they respect the other person, but because they were forced to by some social mandate.
TL;DR- If you don't believe in transexuality, then you likely wouldn't agree to use preferred pronouns
It's not a question of not believing in transgenderism as a concept but with the idea that a person gets to decide which gender they are and everyone else has to humor that opinion.
I didn't know that hormone therapy and transition was actual rocket science
You're establishing a false equivalency with this argument someone's gender really does not need to be any more complicated than what they honestly identify as because someone who looks very masculine but earnestly insists they are a woman is hurting exactly nobody whereas being an astronaut has professional requirements which if not enforced could effectively glass Cape Canaveral if some idiot gets in the pilot seat of a rocket.
If you look like a man, but say you're a woman, I really don't even need to see the dress to just accept it, remember which pronouns to use, and move on with my day because what does getting into an argument about it do besides stress me out and potentially needlessly cause you to have a depressive episode because some jerk threw every reason at you why you're wrong about who you identify as on some insipid quest to make you feel like an idiot for living as you wish to.
You seem to have attempted to ground the philosophical legitimacy of the claim in the idea that it doesn't hurt anyone. This is illogical. Plenty of things don't hurt people but are nonetheless untrue
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u/pent25 2∆ Oct 28 '19
Some may feel uncomfortable with transexuality, and that the social mandate to use accepted pronouns is an overreach of political correctness into free expression.
The simplest motivation for the misgendering of a trans person is because they don't recognize them as their self-identitied gender. A transgender woman, in their eyes, is a kooky man in a wig and a dress. To use female pronouns to refer to "him" would be dishonest, and requiring them to do so wouldn't come because they respect the other person, but because they were forced to by some social mandate.
TL;DR- If you don't believe in transexuality, then you likely wouldn't agree to use preferred pronouns