Genders and Pronouns for Everyone
For the last seven hundred years the terms sex and gender have been synonyms. However, recently the world has gone crazy, and now, on many college campuses, if you ask how many genders there are the students would be hard-pressed to answer. For most of us, sex and gender still refer to a person’s biology. The LGBTQ movement would like to change the definition of gender into what people think, or believe, is their sexuality. They demand that society should accept that gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, pansexual, asexual, genderqueer, aromantic, cisgender, genderfluid, pangender, non-binary, and hundreds of such terms should now be used to describe gender. Wikipedia currently lists 110 possible genders.
Kyle with a library copy of A Quick and Easy Guide to They Them Pronouns
Dylan Mulvaney, a transgender woman who was born male, has stated that “it should be ‘illegal’ when journalists do not refer to her by her preferred pronoun.” When a person adopts a new gender identity they often will begin using new pronouns that better suit their new persona. Most of us never change our sex (or gender) and find that the pronouns he/him, she/her, and they/them work just fine. But just as our crazy modern society has invented 110 genders, they have been busy inventing new pronouns.
To assist the vast majority of us that haven’t kept up with recent changes there are now guidebooks. So, I went looking for one. Timberland Regional Library serves my part of Washington State and has never failed me when I need to find a far-left progressive book. This time I found, A Quick & Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns by Archie Bongiovanni and Tristan Jimerson and published by Limerence Press.
A Quick & Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns, page 13
Archie and Tristan become characters in their own book and on page 13 Tristan explains, “In order to replace a noun with a pronoun, you have to infer the noun’s gender.” Then Archie states, “Which you can’t do based on what a person looks like.” On page 15 Tristan adds, “And when someone does make those assumptions (about a person’s gender) it’s insulting.” He goes on to say on page 20, “It’s your responsibility as a decent human being to learn and use whatever pronouns they ask you to.” Tristan states on page 32, “However, when you outright refuse to use a person’s correct pronouns it’s rude, selfish, and lazy.
This book doesn’t just deal with the topic of pronouns. On page 27, Tristan asks, “Isn’t gender biological.” Archie responds, “Gender and sex are two completely different things! There are more than two genders and more than two sexes.” On page 36, the authors tell us that we should, “Make sure there are gender neutral bathrooms.”
A Quick & Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns, page 24
The sixty-four-page graphic novel is clearly aimed at young people. I would encourage parents to see if it is in their local middle or high school library.
Have you seen or read this book? Is it in your local school library? Let us know in the comment section below.
