Drag would like to make you think a bit more, if that’s okay. Neopronouns certainly do catch on. For example, singular ‘you’ used to be a neopronoun. It replaced ‘thou’. Likewise, singular ‘they’ was a neopronoun ten years ago. It took less than a decade to catch on and become ubiquitous. And ‘it’, when referring to a person, is currently a neopronoun. One that’s very easy to use from a grammatical standpoint, but gives some people trouble, because it feels disrespectful.

You said that neopronouns impair language development. But drag thinks the precise opposite: neopronouns are absolutely essential to the acquisition of proper language skills. You said yourself that drag made you think about the nature of pronouns. Over the past month drag has met a lot of people who think conjugation is a function of grammatical person rather than a function of the individual pronoun. They’re native speakers who don’t understand how their own language works. Because they’ve never been properly challenged.

English is in dire need of more neopronouns, so that adults who think they’ve mastered the language can still learn something. And so that children can have a broader set of experience to draw from to facilitate learning. Otherwise they’ll pick up false assumptions like the conjugation thing.

Making people think isn’t an act of violence, it’s a civic duty. A person who’s stopped learning is practically dead already. Making people think saves lives from monotony and stagnation. And that isn’t to say drag’s identity isn’t genuine. Drag just wishes there were more interesting queer people in the world committing the seditious act that is existing.