I know I said I wasn't going to engage in this conversation, likewise Retillion said he won't, but this is entirely unrelated to the conversation before, and I'm confused on how it transferred to what it is now.
Anyways I would like to say, if you clearly know someone's pronouns you should use them. To do so otherwise is just kinda weird. Like you think you know more about someone then they do. Now I understand basic joke rules, if someone misgenders someone else and acts like it doesn't matter, then people misgender that person until they react. But it's just a bit childish. Please don't turn this conversation into just a bunch of below-the-belt insults and a discussion unto whether or not trans people are real. This is just about decency at this point. Respect what people can do with themselves, and inherently apart of that is respecting pronouns. Maybe it's just where I grew up, but you don't tell people how to be themselves. You judge it when your by yourself, sure, everybody has the privacy of their home. I love talking to myself and would hate any proposition of taking that away. But you don't tell other people how to live their lives.
Asking someone to explain their identity in a public forum with tens of people seeing it is just pedantic and unnecessary, and forces a weird situation into SimonPeter where in which it has to answer a personal question where the arguments made have to be good enough to satisfy everyone's own personal agenda of whether or not it's own identity is valid. Which is besides the point of this thread.
This isn't a personal attack on anyone, It's obviously directed at the one person who asked "Don't you consider that you are a man or a boy ?" I'm not trying to say it's not. I'm saying it's simply a post of remember how public these forums are, and please respect that. There's no moral judgements here. Or at least none I want to give off. I'm not accusing anybody of being anything.
I also understand that posting anything even slightly argumentative against someone is going to make them feel like they need to respond, that's normal. And I'm well aware I'll probably be replied to. Just don't make this topic about the validity of other people's lives and I won't mentally wormhole myself into talking again.