You need just enough of them to distinguish subjects, but not so much that they lose their intuitive meaning. When cops are interviewing witnesses about a suspect, they’ll glom onto easily observable and distinguishing physical traits. Was the suspect a man or a woman? White or black? Tall or short?
Yeah.
Notably, basically all of the people I’ve known who have asked for neutral pronouns were also visibly of indeterminate gender (for instance, mid-transition), and over time their preferred/accepted pronouns always lined up with what a person would guess by looking at them.
This is generally the norm.
If you’ve encountered a lot of genderqueer people with non-obvious pronoun preferences, and they’re pushy about them, that’s probably a product of some kinda perverse selection process. In the least, whatever is causing those people to be annoying about that is not the queerness per se.
Yeah.
Notably, basically all of the people I’ve known who have asked for neutral pronouns were also visibly of indeterminate gender (for instance, mid-transition), and over time their preferred/accepted pronouns always lined up with what a person would guess by looking at them.
This is generally the norm.
If you’ve encountered a lot of genderqueer people with non-obvious pronoun preferences, and they’re pushy about them, that’s probably a product of some kinda perverse selection process. In the least, whatever is causing those people to be annoying about that is not the queerness per se.