Because their logic is that if you use any gender specific pronouns you are, by default, misogynistic?
I thought their logic was that using the male pronoun for persons of unknown gender or in contexts where gender ought to be irrelevant is both unnecessary and sexist - even if it used to be standard usage. How hard is it to use they/their instead of he/his? I manage it easily enough.
The only natural right people have is the right to a life that's solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. At least, that's what Thomas Hobbes thought, but he had survived a nasty civil war. Funny thing about rights: they don't seem to exist until enough people agree that they do, and choose to honor them. That suggests they're an artifact of consensus reality, rather than physical reality.
Otherwise, an atheist living in Saudi Arabia could invoke the right to freedom of religion and not get beheaded for not worshiping the demon Allah. Better to be an atheist living in the US, where you're still free to reject the demon Yahweh and his weakling of an only begotten son.
And yes, governments do have the right to tax you.
They have the authority, granted by law, but not the right. Only individual people have rights.
"Why can't we ever attempt to solve a problem in this country without having a 'War' on it?" -- Rich Thomson, talk.politics.misc