When Asked What Are Your Pronouns, Don t Answer – WSJ

The clear message of gender ideology is that, if you re a female who doesn t identify with the social roles and stereotypes of femininity, then you re not a woman; if you re a male who similarly rejects the social roles and stereotypes of masculinity, then you re not a man. Instead, you re considered either transgender or nonbinary, and Planned Parenthood assures you that there are medical treatments you can use to help your body better reflect who you are. According to this line of thinking, certain personalities, behaviors and preferences are incompatible with certain types of anatomy.

So when someone asks for your pronouns, and you respond with she/her, even though you may be communicating the simple fact that you re female, a gender ideologue would interpret this as an admission that you embrace femininity and the social roles and expectations associated with being female. While women s-rights movements fought for decades to decouple womanhood from rigid stereotypes and social roles, modern gender ideology has melded them back together.

Coercing people into publicly stating their pronouns in the name of inclusion is a Trojan horse that empowers gender ideology and expands its reach. It is the thin end of the gender activists wedge designed to normalize their worldview. Participating in pronoun rituals makes you complicit in gender ideology s regressive belief system, thereby legitimizing it. Far from an innocuous act signaling support for inclusion, it serves as an implicit endorsement of gender ideology and all of its radical tenets.

Let me offer an analogy. Consider the Human Rights Campaign urging people to begin conversations with Hi, my pronouns are _____. What are yours? Now imagine a similar request from the American Federation of Astrologers encouraging everyone to begin conversations with, Hi, I m a Sagittarius. What s your sign? To respond with your own star sign would be to operate within and signal your tacit agreement with the belief system of astrology. If you reject astrology and respond to the question with I don t have a sign, the reply might be Of course you do! When were you born? But that s a completely different question.

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I wonder what the rules of our local courts are on these issues. Must a judge refer to counsel as a she when he is biologically a male, if he “identifies” as a she? What if he identifies as a non-binary “them”? Or as something more exotic? Personally, I don’t think I’ll be doing any of this stuff. I mostly lecture these days anyway. I try to refer to a corporation as an “it,” which of course they are. This probably means I will be identified as a crusty old Neanderthal, or worse. Probably these questions have been already settled to all reasonable persons’ complete satisfaction, if they know what’s good for them.

As far as I know, I don’t have any Neanderthal DNA, but who knows. Might turn out I do. Then I could identify as a “Caveman” or perhaps a “Caveperson.” Or heck, even if I don’t have any! I keep forgetting. A new sense of freedom dawns. Tom Smith, Caveman.