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Since it is not obvious why calling someone by their name would be offensive, did they explain why using their name was offensive?

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Because I was not using a pronoun.

So you singled out this person by using a different speech pattern than you would normally use so that you wouldn't have to accommodate a request to use a different set of pronouns in your normal speech while referring to that person?

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