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I’ll tell you what else - this sort of politics makes middle class college students feel great about how progressive they are. It does not do anything at all for actual trans people who are struggling because of how society treats them.
This is such a first world problem.
This is of course a great thing to see, but so far it is largely confined to a few elite schools with a tradition of progressivism and inclusiveness towards the LGBTQIA+ community. NLSIU and NALSAR lead the pack. I just wonder if the other law schools will catch up and make this standard protocol? For example, colleges like NLUJ, RMLNLU and CNLU are in states with a long history of patriarchy, conservative politics and homophobia/transphobia. Will there be resistance in those places? And what about non-NLUs? Also, even at NLSIU and NALSAR declaring pronouns is not compulsory, e.g. there is no rule saying that students have to mention it in their CVs or the profs have to mention it in their web pages. How far away are we from that?