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That very few adults spend their time fretting about how people refer to them in the third person.
If you were regularly harassed by being called a gender that you aren't after spending years pretending to not be that gender because other people wouldn't like it, you might care.
Just like you might care if you were black and someone refused to stop calling you 'negro.'
That's my whole point though.
I just can't imagine caring about this very much. Sure, when I was an angsty teen, but as an adult "what people think" about me is just so far down the list of things I care about.
Maybe because you come from a place of privilege where you didn't have to hide who you really are due to a vast amount of society hating you for it and just want a little bit of courtesy from the people around them instead of endless hatred?
Maybe. Or maybe I just don't care about how people refer to me, shocking though that may seem.
Okay, tell me about how you overcame massive societal hatred and disapproval to show the world who you are at the risk of your own life.
Your perception and opinions is likely why you don't know of any adults who fret over third person pronouns. You are not a safe person to bring those concerns up to so no one is going to out themselves around you. I assure you it's more common than you think.
Generally speaking we're looking to gain quality of life. If someone negatively reacting is a bigger problem than the internal dysphoria triggers then we take the loss and just quietly hope we don't have to be around you for long.
the problem is, in the tech world, many transgender people seem to make their entire existence revolve around their gender identity and then try to force inclusion politics on everyone.
Let me fix that for ya. In the real world many cisgender bigots make trans people entire existence about their gender, and then try to enforce cis-sexist ideologies on sports, healthcare, culture and education.
I never said they didn't, but two wrongs don't make a right. They're both still wrong.