I'm going to give an example for the people who don't speak spanish in this topic, to understand the pushback from spanish speaking people over this. Let's say, for whatever reason (the actual reason why the change occurs is irrelevant), there is a push to change the name Seattle to Xiattle, based off of the chinese pronunciation of "Xi." Seattlers are now known as Xiattlers to people from other states. People from Xiattle are now like "what the fuck, that's now how we pronounce the letter X" but a bunch of people from Xiattle who also speak chinese are like "no way dudes, this is super simple, it's a natural change."
That is much like what is going on here. People are conflating "Latinx doesn't follow the rules of our language, it follows the rules of other languages" to be "I reject the notion of non-binary inclusion" when that's not the point. You can have non-binary inclusion while still respecting the characteristics of the language in question. Again, as been repeated over and over in this thread, Latine follows the convention of the language and makes sense.
Now, you have some people in here from northern mexico being like "Latinx is easy to pronounce" being typed in english, meaning they are inherently familiar with English pronunciation. It needs to be pointed out that not every spanish speaking person can pronounce Latinx. Depending on dialect, the term "latinx" might be literally unpronouncable. Like Gustaf keeps going on about how he can say "ecks" super easily, but he apparently has never met a spanish person from a dialect that, for example, comes with a natural lisp. There are some dialects that outright cannot pronounce a sharp "cks" noise, it's literally not a phoneme in their dialect. If english speakers wish to understand how it can be "impossible" to pronounce a phoneme not in their language, just remember how many western people struggle to correctly pronounce "Tsu" or "Tso."
Not to mention that, in many spanish speaking dialects, X is not pronounced "ecks."
Now you might be saying, "so what, rules change." Except that the vast majority of people from Latin America are descendents of some sort of Native American heritage. That's a group of people whose culture has vanished. Like, erasure of language is one of the primary and most well understood forms of cultural imperialism, and we're talking about a region that more than possibly any other region has experienced it the hardest. It's extra insulting to tell people to start pronouncing things using the pronunciation of their historical conquerors.
