OPINION: 'The new usage of non-binary pronouns, however confusing at present, is not the PC indulgence of personal whim, but the acknowledging and naming of a new (to many of us) reality, someone who is neither “he” or “she” but…
Always up for a fight, our feisty state Republicans have started off the new year by plunging into the pronoun wars. Senate Bill 1001 would make it a crime for a teacher to use a student’s preferred pronouns when they differ from their assigned biological sex, without parental consent.The trouble started with transgender people and others of a non-binary persuasion asking to be referred to by their own choice of pronouns, usually by the traditionally plural “they/them.
In such instances it seems like respect for plurality of inner inclinations is being given precedence over clarity. Hence the humor in Lewis Carroll’s Humpty-Dumpty declaring “When I use a word it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.” Alice points out to him that it doesn’t work that way.
Language changes all the time and one of the best reasons for a change is to allude to a newly recognized phenomenon. The new usage of non-binary pronouns, however confusing at present, is not the PC indulgence of personal whim, but the acknowledging and naming of a new reality, someone who is neither “he” or “she” but something else again.
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