An Update to Our Community and an Apology
It&#x27;s hard to be believe that people who are brave enough to deal with LGBTQIA issues in their own lives and face actual in-your-face challenges would actually give a crap what pronoun someone used on a technical forum, and it seems absurd to regulate such behavior. If I don&#x27;t want to be a dick and am aware of the preference, then I will try and use the person&#x27;s preferred pronoun - but I&#x27;m certainly not obligated to do so on SO or even in person. The other person can take offense or not, it is their&#x2F;his&#x2F;her own choice. 
I suppose the problem can be solved by just always using the person&#x27;s name, or using other anaphora such as &quot;the OP&quot;, or @username, etc.