I am happy to accommodate people's reasonable requests for what will make their time on Earth a little better. Why not? To be trans is a tough enough road. I'm good with anyone defining their own identity and changing their name, or wanting to be referred to by a different pronoun. But what small number of people are we talking about who cannot come down on a choice between he and she? A hundred maybe? Is it a number worth upending politics over? Change takes time to assimilate into a culture. Ominously, and rather ironically, the sensationalism around this becomes a driver that electrifies and elects conservatives. Forcing change beyond a strategic pace results not in progress but backlash. The result in the US, beginning to be mirrored in Canada, is an alt-right uprising against tolerance itself. Pace yourselves, neither-he-nor-she trans people, for all our sakes.