I hate this culture of lashing out at ticket staff, service staff, tannoy announcers etc for this sort of stuff. Trying to harrass and ruin careers and livelihood of people just doing their jobs. See also that non-binary male singer las month harassing a muslim nail artist who has a female-only policy, see also that butt-hurt person complaining to the train company because the tannoy said Ladies and Gentleman. Yes sometimes workers can be rude but for goodness sake, the lashing out is so disproportionate to the actual ‘mistake.’ What will happen is people will be so scared of ‘misgendering’ or realising they are not a mind reader (how can you guess a stranger is ‘non-binary’ rather than presenting as man or woman?) that we’ll just starting calling each other “you there”
I can understand it upsets a minority but for goodness sake, we shouldn’t have anyone lashing out. These instances aren’t people deliberately and repeatedly using pronouns the person doesn’t want, these are interactions in public with strangers between a customer and workers, lasting seconds. We have automatic facial recognion /sex recognition skills from evolution, we also have lifetime of language use, when serving hundreds of people a day we are going to make ‘mistakes’ because the mental gymnastics to guess someone’s gender is a lot to compute whilst also you know, doing our jobs!!