However, beneath them ran a smaller fight with enormous consequences: the words judges used to describe the transgender litigants. Ultimately, this split poses a fundamental question: how should federal judges address transgender litigants? Judges should use the litigants’ biological pronouns and reject the semantic games of the transgender movement’s pronoun regime. For a legal justification, Courts have sometimes used preferred pronouns as a courtesy. Writing for the majority, Judge Kyle Duncan explained that no federal statute or rule required judges, court personnel, or other litigants to use pronouns matching a litigant’s gender identity.