Ze thinks ou can tell ve how to talk? E is dead wrong.
An annoying trend among useless people studying useless subjects at useless colleges. Not a large problem, except that useless people studying useless subjects at useless colleges often end up in the most useless profession of all: Politics.

Though still in search of mainstream acceptance, students and staff members who describe themselves in terms such as agender, bigender, third gender or gender-fluid are requesting — and sometimes finding — linguistic recognition.

Inviting students to state their preferred gender pronouns, known as PGPs for short, and encouraging classmates to use unfamiliar ones such as ze, sie, e, ou and ve has become an accepted back-to-school practice for professors, dorm advisers, club sponsors, workshop leaders and health care providers at several schools.

In the first place the whole mess is pure fantasy. Only a tiny handful of people, maybe a few hundred, are truly indeterminate. You can't decide after birth to join one gender or the other.

You think you can "change gender" by changing costume? Fine. Let's do it your way. Nearly all Americans are men because nearly all Americans wear pants most of the time. Since we're all men, we don't need your neuter pronouns and we don't need female pronouns either. We can just use "he" and "him" for everyone.

Well then, you think you can "change gender" by getting surgery? Fine. Let's do it your way. In that case a woman who has lost her breasts to cancer is a man, and a man who has lost his testicles is a woman. Surgery is surgery. Angelina Jolie is a man and Lance Armstrong is a woman.

"There is an initial discomfort. I think it's probably hypocritical to pretend there isn't, to say, 'Ok, that's what they want to do' and leave it at that," [writer] Lucy Ferriss said. "The people I know who teach will say 'This is weird and it's cumbersome and it's not going to last because it's not organic.'"

At the same time, Ferris thinks it's a mistake for scholars and grammarians to dismiss the trend without considering whether English and society might be served by less-rigid ideas about gender.

"Mail carrier did not evolve organically and it's a lot easier to say mailman."

Ferris hits the mark with ORGANICALLY. Language develops organically, often by infusion from adolescent in-group jargon. It's normal for adolescents to form cliques with their own way of talking, and it's normal for some of those words to drift into common usage.

Tridelts have their insider words, and Bigenders have their insider words. Same thing. No big deal.

But it's not the same thing after those groups reach adulthood. Tridelts DON'T blackmail governments into FORCING Tridelt words on the rest of us. Bigenders DO blackmail governments into FORCING Bigender words on the rest of us. This IS a big deal, and it requires stern resistance. Government-forced language is the heart of tyranny.
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