Is there literally any scene in the world that has openly transgender people in it and does 3, 4, or 5? Like, a space where a transgender person is friendly with the people there and different people in a conversation are reliably using different pronouns to refer to the same person? My sense is that it’s actively confusing in a conversation for the participants to not be consistent in the choice of someone’s pronouns.
I guess I’ve often seen people default to ‘they’ a lot for people who have preferred pronouns that are he/she, that seems to go by just fine even if some people use he / she for the person, but I can’t recall ever seeing a conversation where one person uses ‘he’ and another person uses ‘she’ when both are referring to the same person.
Is there literally any scene that has openly transgender people in it and does 3, 4, or 5?
If you can use “they” without problems, that sounds a lot like 4.
As for 3 and 5, not to my knowledge. Compromises like this would be more likely in settings with a mix of Liberals and Conservatives, but such places are becoming less common. Perhaps some family reunions would have similar rules or customs?
I could believe it, but my (weak) guess is that in most settings people care about which pronoun they use far less than they care about people not being confused about who is being referred to.
Is there literally any scene in the world that has openly transgender people in it and does 3, 4, or 5? Like, a space where a transgender person is friendly with the people there and different people in a conversation are reliably using different pronouns to refer to the same person? My sense is that it’s actively confusing in a conversation for the participants to not be consistent in the choice of someone’s pronouns.
I guess I’ve often seen people default to ‘they’ a lot for people who have preferred pronouns that are he/she, that seems to go by just fine even if some people use he / she for the person, but I can’t recall ever seeing a conversation where one person uses ‘he’ and another person uses ‘she’ when both are referring to the same person.
If you can use “they” without problems, that sounds a lot like 4.
As for 3 and 5, not to my knowledge. Compromises like this would be more likely in settings with a mix of Liberals and Conservatives, but such places are becoming less common. Perhaps some family reunions would have similar rules or customs?
I could believe it, but my (weak) guess is that in most settings people care about which pronoun they use far less than they care about people not being confused about who is being referred to.