I am largely on the same wavelength and appreciate your candidness. The problem I have with the pronoun issue is that it isn't enough for many of these individuals that they are addressed with their desired pronoun, they actually expect you to believe they are what they believe they are, if you don't, somehow you are discriminating against them, bigoted, intolerant, transphobic etc. which is patently absurd (just because someone doesn't believe in Buddhism doesn't make them anti-Buddhist).

Sorry, but objectively and biologically they are not and never can be anything other than the xx or xy biological sex they were born as, even surgery and hormone treatments cannot change an individual's xx/xy chromosome designation - and should someone choose to address them based on the pronoun that matches their biological sex, that should not be considered a hate transgression or even offensive.

I am happy to call people whatever they want out of respect - as long as they understand that I am always going to be aware that biologically they are the sex they were born as. The flip side of this belief system is that unless they are hypocrites, they have to call you whatever you want them to as well. This has had some entertaining results.

As someone with university experience, you would definitely enjoy some of my recent blog posts, where I have treated social justice, safe spaces and the topic Meritocracy is Dead - Diversity and Privilege in Higher Education.

Posts like yours are one of the great things about Steemit, it would have been banned on FB inside of 5 minutes! Cheers - Cupid Zero