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University of Tennessee President Withdraws Transgender Pronouns 'Ze,' 'Zir' Advisory
Christian Post ^ | 09/12/2015 | Anugrah Kumar

Posted on 09/13/2015 7:47:40 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Joe DiPietro, system president of University of Tennessee, has withdrawn a Web post that encouraged students and professors to use gender-neutral pronouns like "ze" and "zir" instead of gender specific pronouns like "she" and "her," saying it was the biggest controversy he's faced since he took office in 2011.

"The concern across the state from a really wide group of people, not just policymakers, was like nothing I've seen in my time having the privilege to serve the university," DiPietro said, according to USA Today.

"I felt the only way to move forward was to pull the website," he added.

In a memo posted to the website for the Knoxville school's Office for Diversity and Inclusion by the director of the Pride Center, Donna Braquet, it was advised that members of the university community should begin using gender neutral pronouns such as "ze," "hir," "hirs," "zir," "zirs," "xem," and "xyr" to replace standard gender binary pronouns like "he," "she," "his," "her" and "hers."

The purpose behind using gender neutral pronouns, Braquet wrote in the advisory last month, is to create a campus environment that is "welcoming and inclusive for all."

DiPietro said similar Web posts will be reviewed by the chancellor and his Cabinet in the future.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Tennessee
KEYWORDS: college; lgbt; tennessee; transgender
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To: SeekAndFind

an alternative would be pull DiPietro


41 posted on 09/13/2015 8:45:18 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ....carson is the kinder gentler trump)
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To: peggybac

Didn’t take long, did it? ;-)


42 posted on 09/13/2015 8:47:28 AM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: IronJack

We sure see that with Obama, don’t we? And his wife. When the Moocher began to flex her bare arms, you saw old bags like Andrea Mitchell flexing their aged bare arms on tv. Yech!


43 posted on 09/13/2015 8:47:31 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: I'd like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
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To: ShasheMac

Lol! Moe singing that to a room full of babes!


44 posted on 09/13/2015 8:48:27 AM PDT by bk1000 (A clear conscience is a sure sign of a poor memory)
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To: SeekAndFind

INSANITY.


45 posted on 09/13/2015 8:51:11 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: cincinnati65

“See libs think we’re all just too stupid to “get it” the first time around, so the “dumb it down” for the masses. They’ll never see it’s the root idea to begin with. They never challenge their premises.”

And then it becomes a war of attrition. If one is not conditioned to resist something i.e. see the basic fallacy of their premise, the people in the middle, the masses if you will, are under continual bombardment until they just come to accept it.


46 posted on 09/13/2015 8:54:29 AM PDT by Stormdog (A rifle transforms one from subject to Citizen)
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To: Reno89519

“Oh no! Please don’t make me resign!”

As you read his statement, with his mealy-mouthed begging about what a privilege it had been to have this gig. The guy’s afraid for his job!

Should have thought it through a little before you published that crap, you arrogant, twisted freak!


47 posted on 09/13/2015 8:54:35 AM PDT by Tucker39 (Welcome to America! Now speak English; and keep to the right....In driving, in Faith, and politics.)
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To: SeekAndFind

They should just call everyone Frances, Francis, Gene, Jean or Chris.


48 posted on 09/13/2015 8:54:53 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: SeekAndFind

“Proclaiming to be wise, they make themselves fools...”


49 posted on 09/13/2015 9:00:11 AM PDT by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: SeekAndFind; Chode

It is either “he she him her”

other wise they should use the pronoun “it”


50 posted on 09/13/2015 9:05:26 AM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Lots of morons have PhDs.


51 posted on 09/13/2015 9:10:50 AM PDT by Savage Beast (We the People OF THE UNITED STATESÂ…do ordain and establish this Constitution FOR THE UNITED STATES.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Lots of morons have PhDs.


52 posted on 09/13/2015 9:10:51 AM PDT by Savage Beast (We the People OF THE UNITED STATESÂ…do ordain and establish this Constitution FOR THE UNITED STATES.)
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To: madprof98

Hey, the feminists tried it in the 70s. They wanted “thon” to substitute for all kinds of personal pronouns because “he”/”his”/”him” tended to be sexist. That didn’t take, but “their” took on extra duty, as in “Will everyone take their seat?” Anathema to anyone who dared speak the King’s (or probably the Queen’s) English.

Why do we put up with this?


53 posted on 09/13/2015 9:13:18 AM PDT by Mach9
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To: SeekAndFind

Ze Volunteers Choked Big Time last night.


54 posted on 09/13/2015 9:13:26 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: vette6387
He should loos his job!

Are you being sarcastic? Or are you simply guilty of Word Crimes?

55 posted on 09/13/2015 9:27:13 AM PDT by Maceman
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To: SeekAndFind

a lot of times these university liberal teachers are very knowledgeable in there narrow window of expertise and because of that they think they actually have wisdom witch is not knowledge but the ability to see where knowledge is applicable and the ability to call on others expertise in forming opinions. knowledge does not necessary transfer over to wisdom hence this idiot not realizing what he thought was total wackadodal crazy talk that only made him look the part of a fool.


56 posted on 09/13/2015 9:34:05 AM PDT by PCPOET7
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To: miss marmelstein
Swingin' the Alphabet, from "Violent is the Word for Curly"
57 posted on 09/13/2015 9:35:28 AM PDT by bassmaner (Hey commies: I am a' white male, and I am guilty of NOTHING! Sell your 'white guilt' elsewhere.)
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To: CodeToad
create a campus environment that is “welcoming and inclusive for all.”

sheesh if that isn't the most clichéd sentence of the decade....are these people afraid to change a word of it, lest it, God forbid!, become offensive😨 ?...

58 posted on 09/13/2015 9:35:47 AM PDT by uncitizen (i hate gutless people, too.)
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To: TYVets

Yes, someone is trying awfully hard to win at Scrabble.


59 posted on 09/13/2015 9:45:03 AM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: SeekAndFind

How impenetrable must his ivory tower be that he thought this was s good idea?


60 posted on 09/13/2015 9:45:22 AM PDT by Personal Responsibility (Trump/Cruz 2016)
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