You make a good point in that, to a certain degree, I'm only fueling the fire by even talking about this nonsense. The fact is that the national conversation has gotten hijacked by gender politics, and in some retarded cities, they've gone out of their way to make it a crime to misgender people. Here's the thing, I think misgendering legit and genuine people who try to be the opposite sex is mean. I don't want to be that person because I'm a nice guy, and I respect people overall. But I don't think it should be a crime to misgender people because when you start regulating what people can say, that's the beginning of mind control and thought control. The same is true about regulating what people must say; If I am legally required to call you a "he or she" or a this or that or whatever. It means that you are dictating my thoughts. It means you are a tyrant about what things I can say. And that too meddles with free speech. I think people ought not to be assholes, but if you respect free speech, they have the right to say what they think; and the moment they do not have this right is when you are attempting to control their minds. They've forced this conversation to be had, and they are altering the laws to curb our rights to free speech because someone wants a gender reassignment. It's uncalled for and ought not to get tolerated. People ought to be nice, but also, someone's gender IS NOT my religion. And I shouldn't get legally compelled to respect you anymore or less than anyone else because of it. Any legal compulsion of speech leads to some Sieg Heil bullshit. Anyhow this does all tie into critical theory and the frankfurt school of Marxist shenanigans, it's a long walk but if you dig below the surface, there it is.