James, I thought the only college professors likely to get into trouble over pronouns are the ones who intentionally keep applying the ones that a student has repeatedly asked them not to. Am I wrong?
I have a gender-neutral person in my family, and I constantly get their pronouns wrong (mainly due to my brain's difficulties with plural/singular dissonance). Fortunately, they don't expect me to be perfect. Just willing to keep trying, and not treat something that matters a great deal to them as if it's just a trivial whim that is rudely inconveniencing me just for the sake of rudely inconveniencing me. Others' mileage may vary, though.
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