RE: passeriInformal Yeah, that is a red flag in the statement, because either
1: it's what you said, and indicates that Gio doesn't want to put in the very slight amount of effort to gender Hussie correctly because other people haven't

2: Gio doesn't actually want to use Hussie's pronouns and is taking any excuse he can to misgender her.

or 3: Gio is annoyed with Hussie and is using that as an excuse to misgender them, then slapped this excuse together for the footnote to not look bad.

and any of those ways, this doesn't look good at all.