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I have considered this before and assumed that it is more specifically helpful to a would-be addresser - therefore more likely to result in the person being addressed correctly? He/she/they aren’t the only pronouns and someone may identify as a man, for instance, but prefer the pronoun ‘they’.
Edit: page refresh fail and it was said better above! 🙄
AlexD
Genuine, specific question, and I am not sure where else to ask:
Why do people tend to state: 'My pronouns are [he/she/they]' rather than 'I am [a woman/man/other]'?
The former seems to be rather indirect to me -- if it's requesting the reader respect an aspect of the writer's self-identity, doesn't it imply the latter?