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Asking people to refer to you how you want to be addressed IS madness. You must then ask every person how to refer to him/her/them/it/cis/trans/pan before you assume standard English is good enough.

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Your madness is my ideal. I really enjoy living in a time that recognizes more than a binary sense of gender identity. Our language should change to address this. Just like it has changed to recognize that we use computers now.

  Please do not refer to madness as "your."  "This" would

be preferable. Also, I do not recognize that "our" language should change to address a tiny minority wishing to be referred to in a non-binary sense.

The analog between using computers and non-binary self-identification is a strawman/woman/person/thing. Which straw<something> will be acceptable?

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