I'm attending a conference in the US which focusses on equality in a particular field, and as part of registration I need to put my pronouns. I can't leave this blank - the form won't submit. I'm not sure what to do. I imagine these will be printed for the name badge. I definitely don't want to put she/her because this conflicts with my views on gender identity (i.e., I don't identify with my gender; I view it as the source of my oppression). But this is an important conference where I have an excellent chance to meet a lot of people that I could do valuable work with, and it's in the US where I know the gender arguments are in a different (more extreme) state to what they are here, and I don't want to spend the whole time at the conference with a badge which will say to many people 'I am a bigot'.
If asked about it, I would make the point that not everyone is comfortable putting their pronouns and that should be an option, but I have to just fill the form out. I might just put 'not comfortable disclosing my pronouns' as my preferred pronoun, but not sure if they'd print that out and put it on the badge?
Any suggestions as to what I could put as my preferred pronouns? Is there any space between not outraging my principles and not having something that will be viewed by most people there as hostile? They/them actually works for me in some ways because I think gender-neutral pronouns would be a big improvement over gendered, but of course that has a lot of connotations around being non-binary and trans that I don't subscribe to.
I should be brave, probably, but I also feel it's risky to be so upfront about my gender-critical beliefs in a professional context, especially in the US.