“I’d prefer to be mute…”

That is what they are hoping for.

This was something old-style manners and etiquette used to say should only be done under particular circumstances, because it is otherwise rude to talk about someone as if they were not there when they are — or, alternately, entirely too likely to give the person a swelled head by virtue of being talked about.

Ok, wherever it is. In suburbia I have never seen someone who I could tell was trans. Hard to persecute them if you can’t identify them. I’ve never had information given to me that a person was trans except as noted above. I’m 64 so either I’m pretty oblivious or the condition is rare.

https://youtu.be/LyPFQKpRnd0

(approx 33 second mark.)

Please don’t conflate “trans” people with run-of-the-mill homosexuals. If it were up to me, there would be no “BTQ” in “LGBTQ”.

The “trans” movement has nothing to do with the gay community.

The real victim here are the people who are truly, medically, born “intersexed.” It happens–for example see http://aisdsd.org/ .

Wait. In your imagination, you think trans people are primarily found at gay bars and bus stations?

I will make a good effort to use he or she if someone expresses a preference, but it causes strain for me to use “they” as singular, or made-up words like xim, xer, xit, etc. It would be crazy to punish me for going against my brain’s grammatical wiring. And if I’m talking about an unknown person (e.g., “To each his own.”) I wouldn’t ever consider saying something like “To each their [sic] own,” preferring to use the established English convention of “him” covering both sexes.

If I’m ever in a jurisdiction where this could get me sued, I’d prefer to be mute.

Bob