I can't imagine that making a good faith guess at an appropriate gender pronoun would ever draw criticism. I wonder if you weren't downvoted for using the subj

I can't imagine that making a good faith guess at an appropriate gender pronoun would ever draw criticism. I wonder if you weren't downvoted for using the subjunctive mood in your comment ("if that were the intention here") which seems to imply that you believe it was not the intention and was instead a "mistake".