That said, I was enjoying that people would be able to put literally whatever they wanted. Sincere people will put their real life pronouns. People experimenting will put pronouns their thinking about. People making their OC will put their OCs pronouns. People making memes. It’s important to remember things that cutting down barriers to help others ultimately helps everyone in a myriad of ways we never thing about.

But more than that I was thinking about the effect that having this freedom will have on cis people (& people who thought they were cis people) who are playing around with it. Playing a game while its calling you “butts” all the time, may enlighten people who’ve never felt the sting of misgendering understand it a little better. It may cause people who thought they “fit” into the binary and the role society gave them, to question that. Maybe they will decide they do, and come out with a better understand none the less for having questioned. But maybe, just maybe they will find themselves on a far more daring adventure! 🙂

However to the degree we are seeing younger people claim new genders and pronouns and embrace a disconnect from basic truths about their body, it seems more of an unhealthy trend that does little but overshadow if not devalue actual LGBT issues and nurtures anxiety. And I do find the attempt at a paradigm shift about gender and therefore sexual orientation dangerously infringing on what past generations fought for on the basis of clear definitions of innate characteristics.