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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Joe DiPietro, system president of University of Tennessee, has withdrawn a Web post that encouraged students and professors to use gender-neutral pronouns like "ze" and "zir" instead of gender specific pronouns like "she" and "her,"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.

(Excerpt) Read more at christianpost.com ...


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

“Includes all” is a requirement, but “we” - the university diversity office - will fight you to the death if you try to express Christian principles.


21 posted on 09/13/2015 8:16:07 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: SeekAndFind

These people have too much time on their hands. Maybe he should get a real job.


22 posted on 09/13/2015 8:17:17 AM PDT by headstamp 2
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To: Stormdog
“Amazing when liberals realize the stupidity of their “ideas.”

They tend to re-package them and try again and again and again.

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.

23 posted on 09/13/2015 8:18:23 AM PDT by cincinnati65
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To: hanamizu

Or Chinese which is extremely gender neutral yet it’s a very male centric society.

PC is first and foremost a fight against reality.


24 posted on 09/13/2015 8:18:34 AM PDT by aquila48
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To: SeekAndFind
Joe DiPietro is the example that proves the fact that ANY moron can become University President in America.

Ain't America great, or what?

25 posted on 09/13/2015 8:18:53 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (America, a Rule of Mob nation)
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To: AU72

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1258&bih=979&q=+Pride+Center%2C+Donna+Braquet&oq=+Pride+Center%2C+Donna+Braquet&gs_l=img.3...2440.2440.0.3174.1.1.0.0.0.0.78.78.1.1.0....0...1ac.1.64.img..1.0.0.6q9yLS5RcKc#imgrc=Bu-6gMxT4EyRcM%3A

Photo of this gender diversity promoter.

Need I say more? A mile wide, a mile thick, and no mind at all.


26 posted on 09/13/2015 8:18:53 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: SeekAndFind

27 posted on 09/13/2015 8:19:57 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: Stormdog
They tend to re-package them and try again and again and again....

No kidding. Watch for the Supreme Court to discover a fundamental human right to be addressed in this bizarre fashion. (And then to outlaw "he" and "she" as bigotry.)

28 posted on 09/13/2015 8:20:24 AM PDT by madprof98
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To: Reno89519

And make them personally financially responsible because you know zat wasn’t free.


29 posted on 09/13/2015 8:20:36 AM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: SeekAndFind

Z A zay, Z E zee, Z I zicky-zie, Z O zoe, zicky-zie zoe zue Z U, zicky-zie zoe zue.


30 posted on 09/13/2015 8:25:02 AM PDT by ShasheMac (www.needGod.com)
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To: SeekAndFind

He should loos his job!


31 posted on 09/13/2015 8:30:41 AM PDT by vette6387
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To: bigbob
“Ze’s lucky the alumni didn’t demand ze be tossed out on zis ass!”

You left out Heil Hitler!

32 posted on 09/13/2015 8:32:45 AM PDT by vette6387
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To: SeekAndFind

When one lives in an echo chamber one comes up with ideas like this.


33 posted on 09/13/2015 8:33:08 AM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (To win the country back, we need to be as mean as the libs say we are.)
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To: IronJack

Sort of like the Spanish monarch with the lisp which caused all of royalty (and upper-class) Spaniards to imitate it.


34 posted on 09/13/2015 8:36:13 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

Moe, Larry & Curley would have been better instructors.


35 posted on 09/13/2015 8:37:03 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: SeekAndFind

What a loss to our language, our culture, our heritage!


36 posted on 09/13/2015 8:40:53 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Men need a reason to shop. Women need a place.)
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To: SeekAndFind

We already have a pronoun that is suitable: it.


37 posted on 09/13/2015 8:42:50 AM PDT by lefty-lie-spy (Stay metal. For the Horde \m/("_")\m/ - via iPhone from Tokyo.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Zi, zir, zim, zives,

How many were going to St. Ives?

38 posted on 09/13/2015 8:44:06 AM PDT by Flycatcher (God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
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To: miss marmelstein

Every “court” has its lackeys.


39 posted on 09/13/2015 8:44:11 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: SeekAndFind

Sounds like a lot of alums were not happy with this. Money talks. Good for them.


40 posted on 09/13/2015 8:45:02 AM PDT by peggybac (My boss I respect, my father I revered. Chris Rock, Mr. Obama is NOT my boss or my father.)
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