I refuse to address students as their chosen pronouns/names as well. I just call it a teen fad and tell them I use the name that the government sends me. This really pisses them off.
“I just call it a teen fad...”
Fad is the operational word. Look up the statistics. For the oldest generation born in the ‘20’s and ‘30’s LGBTQIA+ (whatever IA+ is supposed to mean) is around 2%; for baby boomers, around 2%; gen X, around 2%; gen Y, 2-3%; millennials it’s up around 35%.
So normally there are around 2% of the people who are attracted to the same sex, which has probably been the case for ages since it is in recorded history. But why the huge jump in confused people just in the last generation? This tells you it’s a cultural problem and not a simply a problem with proper brain development.