This is contradictory. You're essentially saying that people who change their gender and want respect are wrong because they want respect. Your argument is "forget you you can't tell me what to do" which is arrogant and even more self-centered than any sjw telling you to address them in some way.
Think of it like this. When you go over to someone's house and they make food for you, you should say thank you. You don't have to, they aren't any more special than you are, but it's the respectful thing to do. If you're response is "forget you you can't force me to say thank you" you're just saying that you don't want to show respect for someone else. You're just proving that you have some sort of oppositional defiance syndrome or just don't want to be respectful to others.
Except I never said anything about respect. Nice straw man.
On that note, I'm pretty sure that the queer people attacking reporters during that protest in Toronto or wherever in Canada it was weren't thinking "I'd liked to be respected as a person". Nor was the father of a family of four who """became""" a six-year old girl, kissing bikers and working a snow plow. Actually, he may have been thinking about wanting to be respected, but he for sure didn't respect his family's wishes, who wanted a dad and not a half-committed LARPer. When you want respect but you won't give it back, that's called narcissism.
The argument that it's about respect would work if calling non-trans people (or trans people who really
really fit into their new gender) "he" or "she" based on their outward appearance were also based around respect. After all, "xi, chi, ji, googabager, etc." are meant to be genders, as are he and she. Problem is, I'm pretty sure most people aren't going around thinking, "this guy'd feel pretty disrespected if I called him a 'she', better go with 'he'". They most likely do it because
it's what makes sense.
So if he and she aren't about respect, what does that make the alphabet soup that trans people want you to call them? What warrants respect name-wise as opposed to common sense? Titles.
Know the guy who told us his pronouns were "his majesty"? He rose a pretty good point. What do you call your mom and dad, your boss, a military captain, the Queen of England, etc.? Titles may be about respect, but it's not the "treat others the way you want to be treated" kind of respect. It's the respect that comes with authority. So you see right there my problem with random yahoos demanding my special treatment for reasons based not in science or reason but "special snowflake" syndrome.
I recently had this talk with my extended family. I know my argument.
