The Trans Agenda Could Make You Choose Your Pronouns - Minding The Campus

The Trans Agenda Could Make You Choose Your Pronouns - Minding The Campus
"In early December, Merriam-Webster named “they” the 2019 Word of the Year.
...At my own university, one can choose to have their personal pronouns displayed in the public directory: choices include “they/them” and “ze/hir.”
For students, these selected pronouns also appear on class rosters.
Speakers at meetings and on panels often introduce themselves as “Jane Doe, she/her.”
...In short, in higher education, pronouns are everywhere.
Pronouns are, of course, just one part of the larger transgender movement, and that movement itself finds an accommodating home on college campuses.
...But within this larger movement, pronouns have come to represent more than just lexical items. Rather, they’ve transformed into ideological shorthand that signals to one’s audience support for transgender rights, that one is on the “right” side of history.
Their ubiquity renders them a powerful cudgel to beat down any dissenters. 
If stating one’s pronouns has become unquestioned dogma, then it follows the omission of these statements signals something too: perhaps a touch of heterodoxy, a public confession that one may not toe the acceptable party line..."
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