The Emperor Elagabalus requested to be termed the equivalent of 'wife' and 'lady'.Source?
But if you look it up, there are loads of examples in Indian, Thai, native American, Tongan and other cultural histories of people explicitly defying gender roles and identifying as a gender distinct from their birth/biological sex.
My point exactly.Nobody is looking at someone's birth certificate to determine what pronoun to use.
You tell me-- you're insistent that one way is right and the other wrong as well.Who says? I have no reason to believe the use of pronouns is or should be tied to gender identity. The definitions refer to sex, not gender. Why is one side magically right and the other side wrong?
The only difference is that yours is based on mutable physical characteristics which even by your own admission aren't always visible or considered. Whereas mine is based on self-identity.
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