I started an online course last week. It will be fun I thought. How wrong was I on that but I had my first, real-life experience of pronouns being a thing. The facilitator introduced herself by name followed by "and my pronouns are she/her" and my face was 
because it speaks for me without any filter or conscious thought. We were then invited to introduce ourselves if we wanted to. I was worried I'd have to give my pronouns if I did so I kept quiet. This is perhaps the norm now but it struck me as very weird especially as the course is run by a local Women’s centre off the back of the Freedom Programme where our experiences of abuse are due to our sex.
Dd has a student in her school who identifies as a helicopter. Seriously. Are her pronouns ?? Good for her as it shows the madness for what it is. DD has been called transphobic for saying I respect everyone no matter what they identify as but you can't change sex. She really struggles to do the mental gymnastics of calling a girl they/them when she is presented with a very female body. Dd is hopefully being assessed for ASD as am I and we both struggle so much with falsehoods and are sticklers for rules so I don't think we will ever be able to state that someone is the opposite of what they are. It's the same as trying to say 10-5=3. Or that the sun is actually the moon or cold. It doesn't compute as it goes against all logic and facts.
Oh and then on a TA course when looking at stages of child development the PowerPoint included gender as an area of development. I queried what she meant by gender as there are so many genders and got a slightly embarrassed look and a description of make and female sexes so I got her to clarify that actually she meant sex. When I write my assignment I might highlight the issues there because I'll be damned if I discuss puberty in terms of gender when it should be sex.
When will the madness stop??