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human
One should never expect people to use invented pronouns (xe, xir, etc.) CMV

I see people on the Internet often argue that people are "misgendering" them by not using their special pronouns that they've invented. They claim that since they are "nonbinary" they don't identify with "him" or "her" and need to invent a new pronoun like "xie" or "bunself". 

The thing is, English has a gender neutral pronoun. "They". And it's not just a plural pronoun. It's been in the English language for hundreds of years referring to a singular person. 

Pronouns are not something to just make up. They're for other people to identify you when you aren't there. You have something you can choose. It's called a name. You can have as crazy of a name or a nickname as you want, but making up crazy pronouns is off limits. 

tl;dr: I will happily call someone by their preferred pronouns so long as they aren't a stupid made up pronoun.  A pronoun is not a silly second name. Try to convince me otherwise.

**EDIT:** The most common argument seems to be "all words are just made up." I have explained multiple times why this argument doesn't fly. Please try some other argument please.
gpt
Not that long ago, if you were a woman, you were either referred to as "Miss" or "Mrs."  Your marital status defined you (while men, of course, escaped such a thing).  "Miss" denoted young, innocent and weak, while Mrs. was property of the husband, as in "Mrs. John Smith".

So, some women came up with a stupid made up term "Ms.", which was scoffed at by a lot of people.  But now, it's common, and makes sense.

Not long ago, people from China or Japan were called "Oriental", a reference to being from the East.  Of course, it was only the East relative to Europe, and the people from there got tired of the term and asked to be called Asians.

Sure, there's a limit of reasonableness that needs to apply.  You might not know a persons preferred gender designation when you meet them and use the wrong term, and they should have no right to get pissed off.

But what harm does it do to make a small accommodation to acknowledge that the term of address that they prefer is a better one to use than an ill-fitting one-size-fits-all approach?