We do a lot of things in the name of common courtesy that are mildly inconvenient to us.
If you piss on a toilet seat, you wipe it up. Failing to do so is obnoxious and uncivilized behavior that almost everyone agrees is gross and bad. People who won’t spend five seconds to wipe off their dribbled urine are reviled for their laziness and lack of consideration.
If you’re riding a bus and fully able to stand, you give up your seat so that someone heavily pregnant or with mobility problems can sit. You might not want to stand, but this is generally agreed on to be a very basic expectation for appropriate behavior. We look down upon people who refuse to make this small sacrifice for no good reason other than not wanting to.
We make small changes to our own lives in order to make big differences for others all the time. That’s a fundamental part of what we consider to be human, to be courteous, to be civilized and mature. That’s how we are able to function as a society. You wouldn’t defend pissing on toilet seats and leaving it, or making pregnant people stand on a bus, or slamming the door in the face of someone walking behind you—and if you would, you probably realize that you’re going to be regarded as an unpleasant and immature asshole with an ego problem.
Making an effort to use someone’s correct name and/or pronouns is much less of an inconvenience than picking up your dog’s shit or wiping off a toilet or giving up your seat on the bus. You actually don’t have to whine about how hard it is or how difficult it is to adjust your language to show respect. What may be one small inconvenience is something much bigger for others, and it doesn’t hurt you or even expose you to bodily waste products to make the effort.
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