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Not even the Bible. Have these people seriously not heard the words him and her prior to three years ago? Do they really think they are new words?
I mean perhaps we shouldn't steelman these people but that is obviously not what they're talking about when they complain about pronouns. But at the same time it's quite possible that many of them are seeing the word "pronoun" for the first time in their lives and have no concept of what it actually means.
It's not that they haven't heard the words "him" and "her," it's that they haven't heard the word "pronoun." They don't know what it means, and think that it's something the trans community made up.