The Associated Press and the Pronoun Wars
Begun, the pronoun wars have.
by SOHRAB AHMARI
“The transgender movement is at war with the English language. With a new set of style guidelines, the Associated Press has joined the trenches—on the transgender side...In a series of tweets on Tuesday explaining the changes first promulgated earlier this year, the AP’s editors contended that ‘gender refers to a person’s social identity, while sex refers to biological characteristics’ and admonished writers to ‘avoid references to being born a boy or girl.’ The venerable news agency also endorsed the language- and prose-disfiguring use of ‘they/them’ as a singular pronoun. It even left open the door to more exotic made-up pronouns such as ‘ze’ and ‘zir.’ Tuesday also saw the AP introduce a new rule: Instead of the expressions ‘sex change’ or ‘transition,’ writers are to use ‘gender confirmation.’ This was a deep kowtow to the transgender movement, which believes that physicians don’t alter anything essential or fundamental when they perform a sex-change operation: Caitlyn Jenner was always Caitlyn Jenner. The operation merely confirmed this ontological fact.”
“The transgender movement is at war with the English language. With a new set of style guidelines, the Associated Press has joined the trenches—on the transgender side...In a series of tweets on Tuesday explaining the changes first promulgated earlier this year, the AP’s editors contended that ‘gender refers to a person’s social identity, while sex refers to biological characteristics’ and admonished writers to ‘avoid references to being born a boy or girl.’ The venerable news agency also endorsed the language- and prose-disfiguring use of ‘they/them’ as a singular pronoun. It even left open the door to more exotic made-up pronouns such as ‘ze’ and ‘zir.’ Tuesday also saw the AP introduce a new rule: Instead of the expressions ‘sex change’ or ‘transition,’ writers are to use ‘gender confirmation.’ This was a deep kowtow to the transgender movement, which believes that physicians don’t alter anything essential or fundamental when they perform a sex-change operation: Caitlyn Jenner was always Caitlyn Jenner. The operation merely confirmed this ontological fact.”
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