Thanks. Quite sanguine, Penguin.

I am almost with you, I will call a person by whatever he/she, him/her pronouns they identify with. But I also have a problem with "they/them" when referring to a single person. Language developed so that people could communicate with each other in greater detail than grunts and pointing.

What makes language so successful in this is the commonality, the acceptance by common speakers of what the words mean, how sentences are structured, and a set of gramatical rules. Without an accepted structure, comunication becomes gibberish. The French are aggressive in refusing to alter their language. English, on the other hand, adopts new words and phrases when they become accepted by a large segment of society. But until they become standardized, they are just fringe.

I can see a first grade teacher in Floriduh teaching kids spelling and reading and coming across the words they and them. And having to teach the students that the words mean a reference to multiple people, but also applies to people with an ambiguous gender identity. And then the police come and arrest the teacher for "grooming".

I know you disagree on this point, but you opened a debate, and that's my two cents. But I really appreciate you sticking your neck out here and saying what millions of us are thinking, at the risk of being labeled transphobic, homophobic, or worse.