Sad. Even the Telegraph can’t get it right.

The Green Party is being sued by a former member who was suspended for mocking “fairy” pronouns.

Emma Bateman, who was co-chairman of Green Party Women, was found to have breached diversity rules by making “clearly antagonistic” comments about “fae/faer” pronouns used by people who believe they are mythical beings.

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In March 2022, Ms Bateman was suspended for three months over a speech she made to gender-critical activists in Speaker’s Corner, Hyde Park, in which she mocked those who believe “that every time someone says men are not women a person with fairy pronouns literally dies”.

She also challenged fellow members on how far they were willing to go to “prostrate” themselves to the “pronoun police”…

Fairy pronouns are a type of modern or “neo” pronoun which can be used by people of any gender identity, including those who literally identify as mythical beings.

They are used as a substitute for traditional pronouns, meaning those using them would be referred to as fae/faer instead of she/her or he/him.

No no no no no. That’s entirely wrong.

People who demand that everyone use customized pronouns to refer to them are not “using” those pronouns, they’re trying to make other people use them. As so often, it sounds like a nitpick but it is in fact the heart of the matter.

It’s a miniature version of the whole conflict. We don’t object to their thinking of themselves as [insert any noun here], we object to their aggressive efforts to force us to agree that they are umbrellas or shipping containers or planets.