They can't argue it's illegitimate to. You have promotion warrants and a fucking chevrons you can literally wear.
Military ranks are proper pronouns, and are used as official titles & pronouns, and you visually wear them. So if DIE wants to get stupid, you can make a 1:1 transition to rank structure no matter how egregious they want to make the pronoun issue. Then you can make them address you by your rank, and even come back with witty remarks when they get it wrong.
"Sir, I don't think you can use those pronouns."
"It's fucking Sergeant to you. And don't use "sir", I work for a living."
Wow. I just went through the use of pronouns and Sarge works for all of them...
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They can't argue it's illegitimate to. You have promotion warrants and a fucking chevrons you can literally wear.
Military ranks are proper pronouns, and are used as official titles & pronouns, and you visually wear them. So if DIE wants to get stupid, you can make a 1:1 transition to rank structure no matter how egregious they want to make the pronoun issue. Then you can make them address you by your rank, and even come back with witty remarks when they get it wrong.
"Sir, I don't think you can use those pronouns."
"It's fucking Sergeant to you. And don't use "sir", I work for a living."
I actually heard that joke recently in a star trek episode. Warf's adopted father told it when introducing himself.
The best joke will always be: "Eat any good books, lately?"
Romulon!!