Hello, Alexis. Thanks for bringing this subject up to Jolt readers. Much of the confusion we as a society are having with this issue stems from the fact that many of us use the words "***" and "gender" interchangeably, which of course is a mistake. The word "gender" traditionally denoted the accompanying traits, characteristics and clothing which a given society associated with a particular *** (for instance, the fact that wearing dresses was gender-normative only for females and not for males), but it wasn't biologically determined in the sense that they remained the same ***; nowadays, folks tend to conflate the two words or simply drop the word "***" from consideration at all.
For those who prefer to adopt the gender-normative aspects of the opposite ***, that's certainly their choice, but unless they commit to the extensive surgery and hormone treatments required, then of course it does not change their ***. As such, I think it would be much simpler (and arguably healthier) for everyone involved to use the biologically-accurate pronouns to identify oneself both in public and in private.
Folks from Marlene Dietrich to David Bowie frequently adopted the clothing and mannerisms of the opposite gender without feeling a need to be identified as the opposite ***, and it seems to me they were able to live healthily and present themselves how they wanted to do so without causing an existential headache for themselves or anyone else by juggling pronouns.
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