text:  Most adults have shown that they will respect the pronoun, even if they'd prefer not to, simply because they're afraid of confrontation, they're afraid of awkwardness. There could be nothing else, there could be no other potential consequence other than that, and most adults will just go along with it. How many children will have the strength to speak the truth, retain their sanity, when the consequence will be not only social alienation, but also severe administrative punishments?