With a one-minute look at culture from a Christian worldview, I'm John Stone Street with the Point.

Pennsylvania's Education Department is suggesting the use of gender-neutral pronouns in schools such as knee, V, and Z.

Pronouns of what language scholars call a closed set, words we depend on to reduce our cognitive load,

shortcuts to point us to reality. And that's why pronouns typically change slowly, except when, say, a foreign invasion brings

new ones.

Well, the problem with these newer pronouns is that they don't point to reality at all.

In fact, one website even argues that traditional pronouns cause harm by pointing to reality

and implying there are only two genders.

But just as pumping wrong sex hormones into a body can only mask but never change someone's sex,

the same is true of these neo-pronouns.

And just as wrong-sex hormones inflicts permanent damage, so does the misuse of words.

As scholar Abigail Favali wrote, to give up on a biologically aligned pronoun is,

quote, a kind of betrayal of myself, my

sex, and those bodily threads knit by nature and grace that bind us to Christ and the earth.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.