No, that is choosing what the GOVERNMENT calls you, largely for the purpose of ensuring they can extract a large portion of the labor for redistribution.

There is nothing requiring me or any other person from using your legal name, and in fact in some situations today using a persons legal name would be met with outrage and offense (i.e dead naming)

>If someone continued to, intentionally, .... you can bet she’d be offended

Seems like an odd thing to be offended over, maybe annoyed, or even feel disrespected. Offended nah... My first name has a commonly used short name that I dislike, people use it for me all the time but I am not offended by it it is just annoying

>extending that same logic to pronouns seems like a pretty fair expectation of basic human decency to me.

One big difference in language is pronouns are not directed at the target of their use, where names are.

Normal use of pronouns is used when describing a person to a 3rd party. "Go find Jim, he has your report"

He/She etc are outward expressions of secondary sex characteristic to aid people in their observation of the world. to use a another example

"Go find Sam, she has your report", I would go looking for a human with outwardly female characteristic. where as "Go find Sam, he has your report" I would look for a human with male characteristic. "Go find Sam, they has your report" is not only grammatically incorrect, it gives no indication on the type of human I should be looking for so I would just go down the hallway yelling Sam at everyone

>You’re seriously saying that if everyone around you referred to you as “miss” or “ma’am”, forever, that wouldn’t start to get to you?

I have a problem if people refer to me as Sir but it has nothing to do with the gender. /s

>but yet to meet a man who actually is.

Nice to meet you. Call me Ma'am, I dont care. Call me asshole I dont care, call me anything you want except late for dinner