Trans and non binary folks are probably whole integer percent of populations, and are over represented in tech.
It's trivially easy to use "they" rather than he or she. Or "the person" or whatever the actual noun is.
It's trivially easy to use "they" rather than he or she. Or "the person" or whatever the actual noun is.
If you ask me to refer to you as a "they" or any other pronoun, that's how I'll refer to you.
Using someone's correct pronouns is the same. If they say, "use x not y" it's an asshole move to deliberately not use x.
They do. What's wrong with respecting their wishes?
Being decent to people is important. Now if you are referring to a hypothetical person for example in documentation you can't misgender them because you are speaking hypothetically. At that point I think the choice is an aesthetic choice as opposed to a moral one. On cannot be harmed by the documentation using a different pronoun because the person was never speaking directly of you in the first place.