Short version:"I'm not going to participate further in the conversation on Guy's talk page if the entry fee is having to pretend he is being honest."[3]
(For those unfamiliar with what we are talking about, see User talk:Guy Macon/Archive 4#Quitting Wikipedia.)
I have given this a lot of thought, and here is my conclusion.
[1] Floquenbeam invented a new rule ("avoiding personal pronouns entirely is not allowed") and blocked me for violating it (a much-criticized block; [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17]) even though he knew that all he had to do was to ask me to stop.[18][19][20][21] I would have instantly stopped avoiding personal pronouns entirely if asked.[22] It seems that WP:BLOCKNOTPUNITIVE and WP:BLOCKPREVENTATIVE do not apply to me.
I really did try my best to do the right thing and avoid offending anybody. I really did think that avoiding personal pronouns entirely was a way to avoid offending someone who has a history of using personal pronouns as a club to beat other editors with.[23][24]
If I were to resume editing, I would instead use {{they}} and related templates, as I have in this reply.
[2] Floquenbeam warned me that the next time I violated a newly-invented rule that I was not aware of I would be blocked indefinitely.
[3] Floquenbeam called me a liar and a troll, making it clear that he has a personal animosity towards me.
[4] Floquenbeam declined to step back and allow other administrators to handle any future disruptive behavior on my part.
That last one is the killer.
Why would Floquenbeam refuse such a request?
He could do it without admitting fault.
He could even do it privately by email and I would not reveal that he had made such an agreement unless he violated it.
I can think of only one reason why Floquenbeam would refuse to let other administrators deal with me. It appears that he thinks that I am pulling the wool over other administrator's eyes and that he and only he is capable of dealing with what he is convinced is a lying, transphobic troll who has everybody else fooled.
Based upon past behavior, I have a reasonable belief that if I resume editing Wikipedia, Floquenbeam will invent some new rule and block me indefinitely without warning.
As I write this I wonder whether I will be blocked without warning for violating a newly-invented "you are not allowed to explain why you stopped contributing to Wikipedia articles on your talk page" rule. Of course Floquenbeam could just tell me to stop doing that and I would instantly comply.
Before I retired I actually tried to just put it behind me and had a couple of edits all composed and ready to go.
I found that I could not bring myself to hit the publish button.
I had no way of knowing if my edit violates some new rule that I never heard of.
After the third time that I found myself unable to publish an edit out of fear of breaking some rule I am not aware of, I gave up and retired.
At least this way I can still keep WP:1AM, WP:YWAB and WP:CANCER updated.
I will resume editing articles if Floquenbeam ever decides step back and allow other administrators to handle any future behavior on my part or in some other way is no longer in a position to block me without warning.
There is no point in anyone asking him to do that. He is already well aware of my feelings on this.[25][26]
There is also no point in escalating this to WP:ANI or WP:ARBCOM. This would just result in multiple comments saying "don't believe Guy! He is a lying, transphobic troll. I have read Guy Macon's mind over the Internet and know that he is lying."[27][28][29][30][31][32][33]
That's my final decision, and I am not going to change my mind. --Guy Macon (talk) 16:33, 18 July 2021 (UTC)
It sounds like Guy Macon is "not here to build an encyclopedia".I will not be editing here anymore. I will, of course, still be editing some essays I wrote. And chatting daily with people here on my talk page. I am retired and that is final. Of course, I will be back in a minute if Floquenbeam agrees not to block me for trolling people by using the wrong pronouns or anything else. Final answer.