(LifeSiteNews) — Canada’s newspaper of record would like you to know that it is high time you got with the program. According to an August 27 Globe and Mail headline: “Still struggling with pronouns? Some of it is grammar. The rest is you.”
When the author – Leah Eichler – refers to “pronouns,” she is not referring to difficulties with the English language. She is referring to the ongoing ideological project to modify language to reflect LGBT premises, which is something quite different.
“The highlights of summer, for me, include quiet nights at a family cottage, a swim in the pond and watching my 82-year-old, very traditional Eastern European father struggle with my son’s pronouns,” Eichler wrote. “I love the way my dad slaps his forehead, promising he will get it right next time. It’s a rite of passage and more people should get on board.”
The reason this elderly man is “struggling,” of course, is because he is being asked to use pronouns that do not reflect the sex of his grandchild. It isn’t about the pronouns. It is about affirming that a child’s gender does not match a child’s sex. It is about affirming transgender ideology. It is revealing that Eichler calls this a “rite of passage.”
“Not long ago, I suffered the same affliction, regularly misgendering my trans son who uses the pronouns he/him,” Eichler continued. “I blamed my love of language and grammar. But then I took a long, hard look at myself, and wondered if my persistent mistakes cloaked a deeper bias. I could blame grammar, but to quote Taylor Swift, ‘It’s me, hi. I’m the problem, it’s me.’” She concludes:
Now, when I encounter someone who says they struggle with pronouns, I wonder how much of it is grammatical habit and how much is unconscious (or deliberate) bias. Unfortunately, the answer is often a bit of both.
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Well, yes. Jordan Peterson got fired and then famous for stating that he would not be subject to compelled speech – that to use “preferred pronouns” was not about courtesy, it was about affirming an entire ideology rooted in the premise that children can be born in the wrong body. Many people consciously reject that ideology as well as the Frankenstein horror show of sex change surgeries and irreversible damage that have emerged from it.
Eichler then details the many ways that the English language has evolved with relation to pronouns but leaves out a very important fact: These developments were organic, whereas in the case of LGBT ideology, it is a top-down, imposed ideological project herding people toward a specific conclusion, premised on the idea that sex and gender are distinct.
Indeed, she notes one expert’s observation that “all words are invented” but that it is “only what sticks that become language.” The 2025 Gender Census of 43,000 people who do not identify as strictly male or female found 2,259 distinct custom sets of neo-pronouns, only 499 of which appeared more than once. I doubt even most LGBT activists could name more than a dozen. None of this is going to become “language” unless there is a concerted effort by legislators, schools, activists, and the press, to make them “stick.”
Eichler states that “creating or changing words has always been political and this unwavering belief that a vocabulary is a solid thing usually masks a conservative agenda.” In short, she admits that the ongoing attempt to change language from the top down is political; she just says that attempting to resist that attempt “masks a conservative agenda.”
This is a classic progressive tactic: declare a culture war and then blame people who want no part of it for having initiated the war in the first place. If you had told progressives in, say, the year 2001 that the belief that children cannot change sex was a “conservative agenda,” most of them would have been indignant.
One expert Eichler quotes noted that including your pronouns in your email signature, for example, “signals to your trans colleagues that you are not a raging transphobe.” How very subtle. Your binary choice is a) accept the premises of gender ideology or b) be damned as a “raging transphobe.” On that one, I’m non-binary.
