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You, and everybody interested in this who wants real integrity in their leverage to argue this stuff, need to get Hofstadter's remapping of gender-terms from Mr vs Miss & Mrs to ..
.. IF you are white, THEN there is 1 pronoun for you, ..
.. ELSIF you are black, THEN your pronoun is dependent on whether you're employed or not
written by Douglas Hofstadter ( author of "Godel Escher Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid", the keystone to competent philosophy ), for Scientific American magazine, decades ago.
It may be in the "Metamagical Themas" book.
It was mentioned in the 1990's in the Feminism FAQ as being trailblazing, because it caused what we were unconscious-of to GET in our faces, violating our habits, so we could actually perceive just how prejudiced it is.
searching .. This may be it..
https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/purity.html
I only glanced at it, it's too jarring for me ( I'd rather that I could just live in solitary isolation for the entire rest of my life: humanity's abuse ), but it may help crystalize the ability to articulate just how stilted this all is.
I completely agree that "Mr." and "Miss", "Mrs.", "Mz" all are gender-identifying, and as-such ought be considered illegal under their law.
But exactly as the convict/felon/inmate Yehoshua "Jesus" benJoseph identiied, a couple of millenia ago, legalists insist on the letter-of-the-law, while ignoring whatever law's inconvenient to their artifice.
Legalists haven't changed since benJoseph called them "Hypocrites!".
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