The language we use is more important than most people give it credit for. Language shapes how people interact with things. Ignoring a "preference" is easier and given much more social grace than ignoring a "fact", for example
a tweet by Natalie Reed (@nataliereed84) that says: "Cis people get genders, we only get "gender identities". They get pronouns, we get "preferred pronouns". They [allcaps on] are [allcaps off], we "identify as""
u/RosethornRanger — 5 days ago