
Last year, David French received backlash for calling his trans-identified male colleague, “she.” In 2018, he’d written that calling a man by female pronouns is a lie he couldn’t participate in. I asked him about this seeming change. “Do you equate calling a man who identifies as a woman “he” as being unkind?” French: “I don’t see the value in saying something that I know and they know is going to be hurtful to them. It’s just normal, complete politeness and manners.”




















