I'm almost certain this is a troll attempt, but in the event it isn't...
I've had a lot of trans and "gender non-conforming" friends in my life, and not a single one of them actually talks like this. NONE of them have ever explicitly stated their pronouns in conversation, and they ALL address people as he or she depending on how they present themselves outwardly; that is to say they all assume the other person's gender. It's very safe to say in a fantasy world besieged by magical and mythical creatures, not a single person in existence would have the time to be worrying about someone else's pronouns and how "regressive" it is to see if someone has bumps on their chest or hair on their face to determine if they're male or female.
Even ignoring real life politics, I'm fairly confident using they/them to refer to or address people in normal conversation is completely immersion breaking. They/them is used almost exclusively to refer to multiple individuals or singular individuals whose gender is unknown or unspecified. When someone sees you and can identify your sex, "they" no longer applies, and a consistent effort from NPCs to use those pronouns would completely take you out of the experience when they otherwise refer to other NPCs' gender correctly.
Last edited by Fisher; 12/01/21 09:19 AM.
