2. It is not respectful to a person to call them by a different pronoun. To assume it is honoring/respectful is to assume we always desire things that are honoring for ourselves, yet we ask for dishonored things all of the time. Just look at the sex culture today. For an individual to seek sex before marriage is dishonoring to his/herself. In the same way, asking someone to regard you differently that your natural sex is dishonorable to yourself.