The war against semantics

‘My pronouns are xe and xem’ said the name badge on the supermarket checkout person’s uniform.

And I thought, good for xem, because that wasn’t ruining grammar.

How to explain that the transgender community are doing my head in because they are stealing words? (I don’t mind them inventing new ones.)

I want to explore my anguish about this in a way that enables me to go on a journey of self-discovery, identifying the way I feel. However, I also desperately want not to offend the trans community, because if I do that I’m done for, because they are the most powerful people on the planet.

When I say they, in that context, that is the correct use of a plural pronoun. But we are losing the plural pronouns because some people insist on appropriating them for the purpose of denoting the singular.

Look, I like millions of others do not care what anyone wants to identify as.