Evolving language

While I have no interest in offending someone, I also will not have my language policed and affirm someone's delusion. Everyone has a sex, which cannot be changed and is not plural."Gender" is meaningless.

Using wrong-sex pronouns is also a type of "gateway drug"- if I refer to male swimmer Lia Thomas as "she", it signals that I accept him as female, which I do not.

As far as the "very vulnerable" population, currently the most vulnerable population is women, who are told to "be kind" and accept men into our sports, bathrooms, locker rooms, private spaces, shelters and even prisons. Currently in California there are dozens of violent male felons in women's prisons, and many women have been raped and impregnated by these men who "identify as women".

Fortunately radical gender ideology seems to be on the way out. The majority of the country does not support men identifying into women's spaces and even Democrats are speaking out on this issue following their election loss.

Thanks for your letter, Ms. Clowes. However, I can’t help but notice that you’re using “traditional” grammar to convey your argument. Because of that, most everyone else can understand your argument and point of view. However, I’d disagree with your conclusion. If you consider it a small gesture to adapt our language to respect and treat others then let’s start including, “Your highness” or “Your majesty” or any other small gesture people would like to be recognized as. As for Mr. Horgan feeling if others refused to call him by his name, wouldn’t he just ignore them, since he doesn’t know they’re calling him? If they misgendered Mr. Horgan, I get the feeling (and I could be wrong) Mr. Horgan would just have a chuckle and go on about his day. I know I would.

Allow me to try and speak one of the languages of this century (this will be a big fail, IMO)… ICYMI and AFAIK, RN some may think your letter TL;DR and would prefer “traditional” grammar IRL. LOL. TTYL. BTW, FWIW I read somewhere that LOL means laugh out loud while LoL means laughing but not as loud. Clearer than traditional grammar? Let’s keep our “traditional” grammar so folks can communicate their ideas, beliefs, etc. to the broadest audience.