Xyr be crazy: Teaching neopronouns in 'what we now call' the USA

Teachers learned about "neopronouns" and "xeopronouns" at the National Education Association's “Advancing LGBTQ+ Justice” event earlier this month, writes Karol Markowicz in the New York Post.

Neopronouns are “new” “pronouns” such as “xe/xem/xyr,” and other letters randomly shoved together. Xeopronouns are for “conceptual identities” such as “cat/cats/catself.”

"Our kids are being force-fed this garbage in America’s public schools, she complains.

The NEA slides repeatedly refer to "what we know as the United States of America" and "what we now call the United States of America," Markowicz writes. Apparently, the teachers' union "is not entirely sure this whole 'America' thing is going to stick," but "xeopronouns are rock-solid."

Also, “homosexual” is offensive now, according to the NEA, because it "comes across as clinical and dog whistle-y.”

The anti-woke group Defending Education shared slides on how to frame a race-and-gender narrative. “Teachers are meant to educate children, not serve as agents of social change," says founder Nicole Neily.

"Every minute spent on woke nonsense is a minute not spent on reading, writing and math,"Marowicz writes. Student achievement hasn't returned to pre-pandemic levels, she notes. "Perhaps less time spent parsing the differences among 'gender fluid," 'genderqueer' and 'agender,' as one NEA slide attempted, is in order."

I remember learning about parts of speech in fifth grade: We spent a lot of time on nouns, verbs, adverbs and prepositions, not so much on pronouns. They seemed so easy. Those were the days.

Markowicz concludes: "Politicians — yes, even Democrats — have to find the courage to say: No more."

I don't think it requires courage. Just common sense.

The federal government won't fund hospitals that provide "gender-related care," such as cross-sex hormones and mastectomies, to minors. This signals "that the federal government does not recognize even the existence of people whose gender identity does not align with their sex at birth," opines the New York Times in what's billed as a news story.

"Recognizing the existence of transgender persons does not dictate the belief that they require medical treatment or that the currently proffered treatments are ethical," notes Ann Althouse, a retired law professor. "There are many phenomena that are recognized but not treated. That's the basis of the old credo 'First, do no harm'."