Well, it's not the same as men in dresses or skirts. They can identify however they choose, with a decent expectation of that being met in the workplace. One of my complaints is that I got consistently misgendered at RNZ. Basically, I wasn't passing, so 'she' wasn't on the tip of people's tongues.
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Neither was 'they' ... it was pretty consistently 'he' This shouldn't be so surprising. The Law Commission found that 1 in 4 people are misgendered in the public service, which RNZ is a part of: I'm still a PSA member! (p. 35) 'In one survey of rainbow public servants, around one-quarter of all respondents said none of their colleagues used their correct name and pronoun. In another survey, 17 per cent of transgender and non-binary respondents said their boss or co-worker had misgendered them on purpose.' https://www.lawcom.govt.nz/assets/Publications/IssuesPapers/NZLC-IP53.pdf