To me, that sentence is first stating a current fact, not the problem. The problem is in the following sentence. That is, they acknowledge not using the pronou

To me, that sentence is first stating a current fact, not the problem. The problem is in the following sentence. That is, they acknowledge not using the pronoun is an insult, but SE has now changed it so that avoiding a pronoun by referring to someone in a different way is now also an insult. Like, for example, I haven't referred to you by a gender-specific pronoun. If you asked me to refer to you as, say, 'she', I would probably still not refer to you using a gender-specific pronoun. I'd continue to use 'you' or 'ergothus'. That would not be acceptable under the new rules coming into play.