Probably to avoid conflict. To a certain point it is easier to appease the manchildren than fight them. If you fight them, you instantly fuel their victimhood complex, but if you put in the effort to compromise, they look like an asshole to ever
He’s in BC, western Canada can be more conservative, but its a toss up really. BC is divided between exceptional individual NDP/Liberal voters and conservative Christians. If only he lived in Alberta...
From what I have seen, not many LGBT people support JY outside of the “common decency” of not misgendering, which I suppose makes sense within their worldview.
I generally try not to be a dick about gender identity unless its someone I have a legitimate reason to dislike or I naturally default to female pronouns. If someone presents female and my mind instinctually applies femoid pronouns, I’m not going to go out of my way to correct myself, thats just pointless. I value my inherent/instinctual worldview, grassroots if you will.