This article on Layshia Clarendon illustrates why I have a headache over pronouns.

https://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/31681454/the-power-layshia-clarendon

I struggled through this article several months ago. I can honestly say that, if you claim that you can get to the end without a slight headache, you're probably lying. It's not easy to process a story written about a person who changes her pronouns on a whim. It's already a huge ask that an entire culture alter itself to include every introductions with pronouns. It's downright narcissistic to expect people to be constantly attentive to which gender you're feeling at any given moment.

Still, it's good that this profile exists because the activists can't call "straw man" on people like me anymore. If you combine this with the lowest IQ den of TikTok, there's no level of incoherence that hasn't been touched.

Yeah, a professor with a hundred students who could get reprimanded or fired for misgendering a student -- even accidentally -- is faced with a big burden just keeping one set of pronouns straight if it's a liberal arts college. Imagine having to handle a student with three sets of pronouns which may not apply at any given time. Imagine having a couple of students like that.

There's also a point that's been made by some trans people (particularly some I know personally) who take umbrage with those who identify as trans and non-binary since trans people...ya know...transition.

This is also a problem for the idea that athletes should be able to compete with the gender with which they identify. If Clarendon only identifies as a woman 1/3rd of the time, shouldn't she have to check herself out of the game if she starts feeling like a he/him or a they/them? Is Clarendon always a woman when she's on the court? How can she -- or anybody -- prove that? If she went on a long stint of feeling like a man, shouldn't she (sorry, he) have to try out for a spot in the NBA?

Also, if she's non-binary, why is she acknowledging a dichotomy in her own set of pronouns? Do you just get to shove a "they/them" in the middle and pretend that's a thing? How often is she a "they/them"? When is that? Is it only when her male and female identities are in perfect balance? How is anybody supposed to know at any given time? More importantly, why should anybody care at any given moment?

This is celebratory of insanity and it took me a while to really put together how, for the author and ESPN, it's accidentally helpful for the other side.