A small step? So what would the full step be? What would the consequences be?
Will nobody in the future be able to refer to another person as 'him', 'her', 'she' or 'he' unless they have full confirmation of that person's declared gender identity?
Will newspaper articles and blog posts have to regenerate dynamically, in the event that the person decided to change their identity, to avoid lawsuits over misidentifying a person in public resulting in emotional hurt and damage to reputation?
Of course, the vision of the future you present is probably one few actually desire, but it's interesting to think about why we humans feel such a need to emphasise people's gender all the time. As another poster put it, what if personal pronouns included a reference to race (or age, religion, weight, sexual orientation, etc.) - would we really be comfortable with that? Yet we find gender such an important thing when referring to others.
Will nobody in the future be able to refer to another person as 'him', 'her', 'she' or 'he' unless they have full confirmation of that person's declared gender identity?
Will newspaper articles and blog posts have to regenerate dynamically, in the event that the person decided to change their identity, to avoid lawsuits over misidentifying a person in public resulting in emotional hurt and damage to reputation?