No one has even checked with the poor gulf what it identifies as

A nautical hate crime surely

Will the ocean kill itself if I call it the Gulf of Mexico?

If like me you haven't started calling it the Gulf of America yet, perhaps you can understand why people might choose to opt out of new labels applied to things OR people to further political agendas you don't support or agree with, and can perhaps agree that people shouldn't be punished for refusing to do so. You should even be able to understand why, when people attempt to force you to do so, your reaction is to tell them to 'sit and spin' rather than sweetly comply with a smile.

Sorry, did your own tired bullshit blow up in your face there?

Why are you so upset about this? America and Mexico are social constructs.

By this logic, if you insist on continuing to call it the Gulf of Mexico, then you have no problem with "deadnaming" and understand perfectly when and why it's appropriate and correct.

Honestly I’m proud of misgendering the “gulf of America” and males that have a mental illness 🤷‍♀️

This was a weird way to find out that Trump renamed the Gulf of Mexico. I suppose not as weird as a 6'7, 45-year-old man renaming himself Neveah and calling himself a little girl, but I don't think I'll be able to look at the map and automatically remember its new name anytime soon.

Yeah, terrible analogy to start w since who is supporting renaming the Gulf of Mexico?

But, if you want to compare, switching names is one thing - for instance I had a friend in college who decided she wanted a more glamorous name than the ones her midwestern parents had given her and chose a new one, and it took me a little while to adapt to it. But as a friend, I eventually did. However, I wouldn't support her birth certificate or old records being altered. A person could get an official name change certificate though, and I don't think names need to be gendered, so a male born John could officially change his name to Jane, and people could call him that. Historical records should include everything though.

This doesn't cover sex change though. That's like a Gulf being renamed an Island or a Mountain. That's not just nominal, it's descriptively inaccurate. Whether it's called the Gulf of Mexico or America is a matter of tradition and ego, and doesn't matter much but seems dumb. But if we started to call it a Mountain and said people who waterskied there were skiing down a mountain, then it would be delusional. No one would accept that - presumably...

If you've already started calling it the Gulf of America instead of the Gulf of Mexico, you should have no trouble calling cats "dogs."

Here's a handy dandy guide to all the places Trump renamed

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For starters, changing the Gulf of Mexico to ‘the Gulf of America’ is cringe and embarrassing. I actually thought he was kidding

But, and damn you for making me at all agree, it’s still not as stupid as calling a man…a woman

It is very US centric to refer to the US as ‘America’ and I try not to do it because it is wrong and it annoys other ‘Americans’ such as those from Canada, Mexico, Central and South America

And

Since the Gulf of Mexico is the biggest gulf in the western hemisphere, and it borders the US and Mexico, (the lands that create the ‘Gulf’) calling it the North American Gulf would actually be more correct than Gulf of Mexico/America

And also, places change names.

What is now Istanbul used to be called Constantinople and before that was called Byzantium. So name changes of places are not anti-reality

Even people change names. Maiden names are changed to married. Celebrities have stage names

This is not the same as saying up is down

nobody ever changes sex

Countries are free to name their bodies of water whatever they want, just as humans are free to name themselves whatever they want.

But pronouns are not names. They are references to objective reality of whether someone is male or female. You can't pick your pronouns.

Since I’m not a narcissistic bully, I will do neither.