Minnesota Parents Seek Help from State’s New Pronoun Crisis Line

Pre-K son refuses to use parents’ preferred identifiers after extended visit with Grandma
TCN – MINNEAPOLIS
A five-year-old has become the subject of two heated disputes, one that is tearing his family apart.
The other may put a new Child and Protective Services (CPS) re-education program to the test.

Freddy, the son of Apple and Garth Izzconfused, is facing a three-month stint at Minnesota’s new CPS Identification Re-Education Program developed by Governor and 2024 Democratic vice-presidential candidate, Tim Walz.
The Izzconfuseds say they have been losing hair, sleep and sanity through the past eight months trying to teach their child their preferred pronouns. After months of frustrating failure, they called the CPS’s “Pronoun Crisis Hotline” for help.
Apple, a gender-fluid individual who describes itself as “a female goddess in male form,” prefers the pronouns “vee/vim/vicodin.” Freddy’s mother, Garth, exudes the rugged demeanor of a 60s-era Clint Eastwood. “Feel” insists on being called “feel/lucky/punk.”
Freddy holds steadfast to the simple, traditional format for the English language.
Three weeks at Grandma’s with an iPad

“We left him with his grandmother and an iPad for three weeks while we went to Hedonism Heaven in Cancun last year. We returned expecting our precious progressive child, full of joy. Instead, we have a stoic, literate pre-K asshole brainwashed by Boomerism,” said Garth.
Freddy says he learned to read and write through extended YouTube consumption while visiting his Nana. This, alongside Nana’s common sense approach to life, language and love, motivated him to change his perspective.

“Pronouns, as grammatical markers, serve primarily as a linguistic convenience rather than a substantive identity determinant,” Freddy told TCN during a video interview on Wednesday. The five-year-old sipped an Americano and adjusted his bowtie as he spoke.
“The entire ordeal seems to be less about my language use and more about the ever-expanding taxonomy of self-perception.”
Father/mother manic about son’s new traditional philosophies
Apple is beside vicodinself over the issue.
“Freddy is nothing but a big meanie,” vee screamed, crushing vim juice box in despair and pulling a baby soother out of vim pocket. “He won’t say what he’s supposed to. He put a booboo on my heart real bad.”

Due to privacy concerns, Minnesota CPS representatives will not comment on the issue. According to the CPS pronoun program’s procedural manual, officials will weigh several options. Among them is the re-education camp. Before then, both sides will see if they can reach a compromise where Freddy refers to both parents as a unit with a single term.
Freddy has suggested “imbecilli inutiles,” a Latin term meaning “usless idiots.”