CNN published a ridiculous A-Z report on “new-pronouns” this weekend:

[Neopronouns] are less commonly used than [she, he, and they]. They’re often used by nonbinary, transgender and gender nonconforming people because they offer more freedom of identity. In his book “What’s Your Pronoun?” Baron wrote that neopronouns “expand the ways that people are able to indicate their gender identity to encompass anyone who is trans or nonbinary, as well as those who choose an altogether different term to characterize their gender.”

According to CNN, to ask someone’s pronouns is in poor taste. Best to be safe, CNN notes, and offer up your own pronouns in a social setting so the rest of zour cohort feels comfortable enough to do the same. The leafs, suns, and stars of the world have also constructed nounself pronouns, which are “more coordinate with complex and diverse identities.” Complex indeed.

The Human Rights Campaign, a group that encourages public schools to use pronouns in classrooms and affirms children’s gender and sexual identities, informed CNN’s neopronoun bible. Conveniently, an example of how to use the pronouns “zee/zir” was, “The teacher graded zir paper today, and ze got an A!” One third-pronoun user told CNN that she (xe?) “just likes” them: “I feel like they fit me better, not all the time, but they’re just fitting. There’s an element where I’m just like, ‘Oh, this sounds really nice.’ Or it sounds nice coming out of my mouth or hearing other people say it.” Lunacy.

In other words, pronouns are too personal to publicize and too fluid to last. That clears it up.

The transgender movement has, in theory, co-opted gendered language. Thirty percent of adults ages 18 to 29 know someone who goes by gender-neutral pronouns (that was as of 2019, so the number is now likely higher), and over 60 percent of that age group is comfortable with using gender-neutral pronouns. More than half of Americans are comfortable using gender-neutral pronouns in conversation.

So, how should conservatives use neopronouns? Don’t. It’s unkind to validate delusion.