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Conservatives online have been taking offense at the use of gender pronouns to introduce oneself, particularly after Vice President Kamala Harris described herself with she/her pronouns in a meeting at the White House in late July 2022. Anger at pronoun usage has been ongoing for a long time as part of resistance to gender-inclusive language that accommodates the needs of transgender and nonbinary people. Some conservatives, like this GOP congressional candidate in Florida, have been tweeting out criticisms of the practice: Many have pointed out that the Constitution is filled with pronouns, however. Merriam-Webster defines pronouns as any of a small set of words (such as I, she, he, you, it, we, or they) in a language that are used as substitutes for nouns or noun phrases and whose referents are named or understood in the context. Indeed, pronouns are a necessary part of the English language, and the Constitution famously begins with the pronoun We: According to Darrell A.H. Miller, a professor of law at Duke University, pointed out that the early meaning of this We was not very inclusive, and there were no female pronouns in the Constitution: He added that the The Constitution leans heavily on the pronoun they. He explains how this pronoun was used and the possible meanings behind it: This is not the only time Spicer tried to score a political point with these statements that defy or ignore the very rules of the English language. On July 24, 2022, she tweeted, There are no pronouns in the Bible. Except, of course, there are, starting with God who is referred to as he. So unless there are different definitions of pronouns we are unaware of, these claims are False.
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