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Support of people may be involved, and this is a poor forum to litigate deep problems -- but if I trusted the diversity-and-inclusion apparatus of Silicon Valley in general to support the entirety of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, including the inconvenient parts about people of differing religions, then I might not been predisposed to choose that word.

Even your reply highlights it. "It's about people." Notice the manner in which you _correct_ my rather anodyne words. The fault is that I did not frame the question as you would have me frame it, and looked at a part of the general phenomenon that is different from you think deserves to be centered on.

You are welcome to your ideology, in any event, and it would be a poor world indeed where one could not act to change the world in accordance with one's conscience.

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There is no such thing as "transgender ideology". You won't find those words on any credible sources.

There are transgender people who want to access their human rights. Transgender people do not choose their gender identity.

There is very much ideology around these issues. One particularly relevant article of ideology suggests that people who are not trans, and whose names would not ordinarily cause confusion, ought nevertheless adopt a practice of specifying pronouns, in service of the idea that those who are trans (or nonbinary) might not stand out when they do so.

While I am agree that there are human rights issues involved in the issues generally, I would say that is not specifically a human right to have others around you adopt this specific practice to support such a person as he, she, or they assert an identity.

Would you please stop editing your post?

You've made several substantial changes -- far beyond the scope of a clarification -- and now I'm reluctant to respond at all because who knows what it'll say next.

Not the same person but for what it's worth: the edit period is limited to a few minutes and it exists for a reason. This topic (gender identity/pronoun use) is important to approach carefully and is exactly when the edit window should be used.

The edit window's about an hour

I was within ~5 minutes, mmmaybe 10 tops.

It is unfortunate that there is an excess of ideology around these issues. It hinders communication by confusing questions about the implementation of an ideology with hate-filled attacks on people.

It does not help the matter that similar attacks are real and exist. On the other hand, such confusion of concerns is a common goal of many who advance their ideologies, so there is a possibility some may deem this confusion desirable.

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