Joe Rogan on language: what the evidence says · JRE #877
“We're talking about as many as 70 plus invented gender pronouns like Z, XE, XIR, HIR, a bunch of weird ones.”
What the evidence says
The "70-plus" figure traces to media compilations of Facebook's February 2014 custom gender-identity field, widely reported as 56 additional options (58 including male/female); it was a list of gender identity labels, not a list of pronouns, and actual neopronouns like xe, xir, and hir are a small subset of real but non-standardized words rather than a fixed roster of 70. On the "compelled to use" framing, no broad U.S. law mandates use of a specific list of invented pronouns. The closest cited real-world example, California's SB 219, only penalizes willful, repeated misgendering of transgender seniors in long-term care facilities and explicitly does not apply to honest mistakes, undercutting the claim that speakers are legally compelled to use a specific set of 70-plus terms.