The APA And Transgender Pronoun Stupidity

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   So...the author of that facepalmerific piece of facepalmery is a fourth-year philosophy Ph.D. student at a solid program.
   This nonsense moved into self-parody territory long ago.
   It's not even worth refuting this ridiculous nonsense. English pronoun use is determined by sex, not gender. Sex can almost always be determined by looking; almost nobody out there is fooling anybody about their sex. Almost anyone with half a brain or more rejects your ridiculous, trendy theories of all this, and has no interest in "showing solidarity" with people who believe them. People can tell I'm male by looking; there's no even vaguely plausible reason for me to wear them. And I'm not going to be modifying proper English usage on the basis of your irrational demands. And I'm not going to call you 'zxzzr.'
   It's extremely important to refuse to go along with this nonsense. And definitely don't fall for the "it's just a word...why not be nice?" argument. It's not just a word--not by a long shot. You're not being asked, you're being told. You're being told that you must believe and act in accordance with an incoherent theory according to which thinking so makes things so. And you're being told that you must speak as the left tells you to speak, even when that means saying and presupposing patent falsehoods. And you're being told that you must alter the rules of the language upon demand. The proper response to all this is "fuck right off."