I didn’t consciously choose this strategy: I slipped into it as the path of least resistance. I only noticed what I’d been doing when I stopped doing it: when I stopped using preferred pronouns, my perceptions of trans-identifying males sprang back to reality. My submission to preferred pronouns had started rewiring my brain. I think the judge’s sensitivity and delicacy in Green allowed him to swerve around the nature of Green’s demands. Those demands were rightly refused in the result, but they were treated by the court with far more respect than they deserved.