For the past several years, various Republicans have made jokes about pronouns, mocking the practice common in LGBTQ+ spaces of sharing one’s pronouns. These jokes are generally not comedy gold, but one Republican may have just taken the prize for the worst iteration of the “My pronouns are…” joke.

“Hey everybody, my name is Tim Sheehy,” said Sheehy, pronounced “she-he,” during his speech Tuesday night at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. He is running for U.S. Senate in Montana.

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“Those are also my pronouns,” he continued, implying that he uses both “she/her” and “he/him” pronouns. After a brief delay, the audience laughed and cheered.

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“I’ve been a he/she for 38 years,” Sheehy said, getting his own name wrong, “and I can promise you, going to elementary school with that name in the 80s was not fun.”

“That is a joke,” he informed the crowd. “But it also shows the lunacy in Joe Biden and Jon Tester’s America.” The incumbent Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT) is Sheehy’s opponent in the general election.

Later in his three-minute speech, Sheehy accused Tester of driving a Prius, which is a hybrid car that some on the right believe makes a person gay.

“Priuses don’t work in Montana, do they?” he asked. He then said that Montanans believe “boys are boys, girls are girls.”

Generally, the joke among conservative politicians and pundits is to say, “My pronouns are…” and then add something they like, such as “MAGA,” “patriot,” or “Jesus lover.” This joke has been used so many times that The Daily Show made a supercut of it last year.

On X, people mocked Sheehy for not even making sense when saying his pronouns are she/he.