I'm a little late to the party on this particular topic, but nevertheless, it was on the brain. And I'm sure the discussion will see another surge in the future.

Gender neutrality, or rather the Gender Neutrality Movement, is (supposed to be) the idea that policies, language, and social institutions should avoid distinguishing roles based on people's sex or gender. This would help prevent the discrimination that emerges from impressions that there are certain social roles for each gender.

This sounds great to me. However, a lot of people behind the movement have made it less about these things and have instead, taken it as an opportunity to become entitled and offended over everything "gender."

For instance, demanding gender neutral pronouns. But my question here is "Why??" Why does it matter so much? How are we supposed to know by looking at someone what his or her gender identity is? Gender neutral pronouns would just cause more confusion and make for some very unnecessary awkward situations.

Does gender have to be such a socially pronounced form of identity? I'm all for gender equality and I'm all for respecting other people and their personal gender identities. But what I do have an issue with is when people feel like they have a right to impose their gender neutralism beliefs and values on other people.

I do think that many people who claim to be for the movement have made gender more of an issue than it is, and than it needs to be. Yes, we should practice tolerance and acceptance of all people, despite gender identities and sexual orientations. Yes, policies and social institutions should avoid distinguishing roles based on sex and yes, we should refer to others by the gender he or she identifies as (after they let us know or if it is obvious). But I don't think that we need to adopt this gender neutral language as the new universal norm. It would only emphasize gender more, and it's really not that big of a deal.

And no, we shouldn't get offended if people are in favor of same-sex bathrooms. Does it really matter where we urinate anyways? Using the restroom does not need to mean more than what it is. I don't contemplate my female identity in the girls' stall. We're all there because we all use the bathroom the same way, and that's it. It's just parts. So can we just keep gender to nothing more than that? That would fix all the problems we see with gender today.

We can't completely get rid of gender differences because they will always exist. So let's leave nature alone for once and not try to give gender more of a meaning than it needs to have. There are differences between men and women in the our brain chemistry and genetic makeup. That's just a fact. There can never really be this type of excessive gender neutrality.

What we can do is focus on what Gender Neutrality is supposes to be about. We can let people identify however they please with no judgment, but it should be left at that.