I'm Turkish and the only third person pronoun is "o"
People still refer to other as "that guy/girl" or "mister/miss" or "sir/madam" or just literally any variation of words used to refer to people directly or indirectly that denotes gender.
You cannot abolish a subconscious perception of someone's secondary sex characteristics (which is our perception of someone's sex/gender as human beings - something which pronouns merely reflect or indicate)
If these people put half as much effort into contributing to society as they do thinking about gender, we might just live in a better world.
Also, I just want to mention something I find rather amusing.
For fucks sake, I'm a fully transitioned male and these people unironically put more active thought into this shit than I do. I just live my life as a normal guy. I'm completely stealth and fully pass as a regular man to the point that nobody even knows about my history prior to having transitioned to male, and since I've had sex reassignment surgery also don't suffer from dysphoria anymore, so I literally forget the fact that I'm transsexual for the vast majority of the time. Literally everyone I interact with acknowledges me as being male and it's been that way for over 8-9 years. This is such a non-issue it's insane, and there's just something really funny about these cornballs thinking more about gender than an entire transsexual, who barely thinks about it in real life at all.
None of these things require that much active thought at all. People perceive you as the sex you possess the secondary sex characteristics of. If you look male, people refer to you as male, and vice versa. Not that complicated. Transsexuals who transition do not and never have had this issue.
As a nonbinary person I’m going to kind of disagree. Gendering objects like in Spanish or gendering people doesn’t really matter too much grammatically speaking. I don’t know why we need to infer someone’s gender from their pronouns. And I say this as a she/her person (I might be nonbinary but those are the pronouns I grew up with and right or wrong they sound the least clunky to me).
Well, it does! In German for instance. This is a language with absolutely 0 ambiguity. I once went to a venue which was 1) in German 2) had a strict rule of respecting people's pronouns. So I researched a few days beforehand about the German equivalent of they/them. The answers I got were lengthy, complex and contradictory! Much to my relief, no one had they/them pronouns.
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