Disclaimer: I'm not a software engineer or anything, and while I can usually figure out how to install something from git, that's as far as my understanding of the platform goes..

Was it an unnecessary edit? Sure, maybe. Hell, could have just been someone trying to get a reaction (mission accomplished). That does not mean that the edit was incorrect in any way (gramatically, syntax-wise, etc.) or political. It's just someone being annoying.

But it's only political, if you agree that trans people should not exist (or I guess just that you are woefully ignorant on the subject of gender).

The hyperbole here is insane. My trans friend’s Japanese parents are supportive of him, but they have some trouble with pronouns.

Can you really not understand that we're talking about two completely different situations?

It's pretty telling to focus on the dev's right to reject inclusivity while simultaneously rejecting and deriding everyone else's right to judge them for that.

And if it was such a useless change, why didn't the dev reject it for that instead of saying it was "political"? He's the one that declared the word itself, not the utility of the change, was the problem. Calling everyone else "trolls" for pointing that out is just disingenuous.

Right, except that's not politically motivated, and is a useful change for people reading the code, both for women and non-binary people.

Calling pronouns "political" is the dogwhistle they always use

I know what happened. Is it a stupid, unnecessary fix? Sure, probably. But that doesn't mean it's political. Trans people simply existing is not a political issue.