"IT" was the first gender neutral pronoun.
As in "What is IT?"
Posted on 11/09/2015 6:26:25 AM PST by Drango
More and more colleges and universities are allowing students to choose their own gender pronouns, meaning instead of just "he" and "she," the options now include pronouns like "ze," which are intended to be gender neutral.
Harvard is one of the universities that made the change official this year. Now, undergraduate students have a variety of pronouns to choose from when they register.
Van Bailey, the director of Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Queer student life at Harvard College talks with NPR's Michel Martin about how Harvard is implementing and reacting to the changes.
On what led to the change
Students. We have a very dynamic and diverse student body. There were a group of students who were able to reach out to our campus partners and the registrar's office and a number of other campus constituents to really talk about their needs, particularly as transgender and non-binary students.
And we wanted to figure out a way where our students didn't have to — in their first introductions to their professor — feel like have to go into a huge paragraph about their identity, but rather have some options and control to express themselves that reflected their identity. That was a series of conversations that we had over four or five years actually.
On how the change works on campus and choices
[As] people who work on campuses, we have access to student information ... we wanted to be able to have everything that a person needed to respond to a student that reflects their identity. This is showing up on advising records, this is showing up on rosters.
We offer several options. "He" and "his," "she" and "hers," "they" and "theirs," we have options for "ze." We have options for folks who say, "Call me these sets of pronouns," for instance, I use sets of both "he" and "they."
On allowing gender fluidity at the expense of pronoun clarity
The singular "they" is something that we do in society all the time. We might not want to officially say that but we definitely do and we're not particular about a person's gender. You know, often times we'll say "they are doing this" if we don't really understand what their gender is or we don't have that information before then. As well as, I think that language is evolving and is connected to our identities, so I think, you know, this is really about inclusion, it's about respect. And at the end of the day I think we need to definitely begin to evolve as we understand how people are identifying.
On how people on campus are responding
It's an exciting time. We're having folks reach out to people like myself to do trainings and education with them if they're saying, "OK I'm trying to understand how this works in real time," and we're happy to do that. The students are excited about it. They're excited to have the control and the options. They're excited that that doesn't have to be a barrier to their classroom experience. You know, because that can be a really kind of chilling experience for a student ... we want to be able to create as many opportunities for students to feel as safe as possible in our classrooms and included as possible and for our classrooms to welcome our diverse student body that we have here.
Next we will start a goose stepping class at all of these Political Correct Campuses.
Newspeak.
At no point can anyone yell “STOP” to this nonsense.
Once you leave the foundation and anchor of God’s word, anything goes and there’s nothing anyone can do about it, except, possibly, escape as best you can.
Less than 1/2 of 1 percent of the population driving the narrative. Shameful to say the least.
"IT" was the first gender neutral pronoun.
As in "What is IT?"
And more from the Muslim supporters of Hillary:
Palestinian Cleric: Muslims Who Die For Allah Get Appetizing Vaginas In Paradise
You just can’t MTS up. LOL!
So where are those so called conservatives on here who haven not been banned yet still trying to defend the homosexual agenda and their sham marriage. What happened to them saying if they get civil unions it does not hurt us. If they get to adopt it does not hurt us. If they get marriage it does not hurt us.
That kind of ignorant thinking and lack of knowledge is why they are now pushing cross dressing and then after that it will be lower the age of consent and incest, meaning homosexual man adopts a young boy and then states he wants to marry boy.
The left make me sick with their twisted mentally ill minds, but it is not just the left, but those so called on the right and liberaltarians who defend this tragedy and sickness.
Will those people wake up soon, or is it a case of them saying still how they know or work with a homosexual and they are nice, they just want to be left alone. Yet they know the person is a homosexual so obviously they don’t want their life private, nor are they being honest with you or their co workers as to who they really are and their agenda.
Next it will be “You post on Free Republic? Ze paper’s, pleez.”
ME ME ME ME ME
I’m forming the STC....Stop The Cr**
We already have “IT”, which I already willingly use in the case of the LGBT crowd.
If ‘they’ got what they really wanted, I can envision what we today called “feminists” embarking on new campaigns to use words that describe their own personal little hells of being a person in this world and diminished. They would likely campaign for their own words to describe them. Perhaps, someone in that distant future will fall upon an ancient and “now applicable” word or two. “She” being among them. A whole new crusade for victimhood status.
We have the words “Pervert” and “it”. Now we need more terms?
I will not comply with offensive faux pronouns
(OBTW - Never thought about it before, but Leticia is kinda hot....)
“Now, Snowflakes, I want all of you to make sure that you, he, she, it, ze, they turn in your, his, her, ze’s, it’s, their work on time, unless you, he, she, it, ze, they are too traumatized by life and need more time in the safe room with play-doh, in which case it’s okay to be late.”
Nope, I would not be willing to teach at today’s Harvard.
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