From here:
The Vancouver School Board has decided that students may ask teachers and staff to address them by the pronoun of their choice, to accommodate transgender students for whom “he” and “she” do not fit.
Offered as possible replacements by the board: The newly coined pronouns xe, xem, xyr, which are pronounced to rhyme with the genderless plurals, they, them, and their, only starting with the “z” sound.
Meanwhile, the former psychiatrist-in-chief of Johns Hopkins Hospital calls transgender confusion what it really is: a “mental disorder”. Nowhere near as serious a mental disorder as that suffered by the Vancouver School Board, of course.
In a June 12 Wall Street Journal op-ed, Dr. Paul McHugh wrote that “policy makers and the media are doing no favors either to the public or the transgendered” by not treating transgender “confusions … as a mental disorder that deserves understanding, treatment and prevention.”
Ah, the rottenness of power and luxury. How much at ease these people must be!
Let us never ask again why God allows wars and disasters, when we see the noxious fruit from half a century of peace and security.
Xe, xem, xyr are not exactly newly coined, I’ve heard of them for years. Regardless of the worthiness or lack thereof of these inventions, the greater English speaking world has ignored them: natural languages don’t respond well to top down decrees.
I would agree that these are not at all likely to catch on. More likely instead they will be used (if used at all) as derogatory (insulting) terms.
On another note:
I very much like that the King James / Authorised Version makes use of the pronouns thee and thou and ye and your. As these pronouns are properly used those that begin with “th” are singular and those that begin with “y” are plural. Thus when we hear our Lord teaching “Thou shalt…” we can understand that the context is very personal. And when he say “I say unto you…” we can understand that the teaching is being given to us as a group. Some may say that these distinctions are not a big deal. But as I read through God’s Holy Bible I am realizing that these distinctions are in fact a very big deal.
That’s how it works in French. 🙂
They could just use boys, girls ,confused.
One behalf of my city, Vancouver, I apologize. We tried to stop this but failed. It is a humiliating embarrassment.