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UT Knoxville encourages students to use gender-neutral pronouns
WJHL-TV ^ | August 27, 2015

Posted on 08/27/2015 2:58:46 PM PDT by don-o

The University of Tennessee is asking students to use “ze, hir, hirs, and xe, xem, xyr.”

No, those words are not another language. They’re actually the gender-neutral singular versions of pronouns.

The University of Tennessee Office for Diversity and Inclusion is asking students and faculty to use the pronouns in order to create a more inclusive campus. They say it alleviates a heavy burden for people expressing different genders or identities.

“We should not assume someone’s gender by their appearance, nor by what is listed on a roster or in student information systems,” Donna Braquet, the Director of the University of Tennessee’s Pride Center said. “Transgender people and people who do not identify within the gender binary may use a different name than their legal name and pronouns of their gender identity, rather than the pronouns of the sex they were assigned at birth.”

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1 posted on 08/27/2015 2:58:46 PM PDT by don-o
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To: don-o

Hey Mr. Trump....Look at this new PC cr** that has surfaced.


2 posted on 08/27/2015 3:01:05 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: don-o

Your tax dollars at work.

These fools need to be fired.


3 posted on 08/27/2015 3:01:13 PM PDT by Ray76 (When a gov't leads it's people down a path of destruction resistance is not only a right but a duty.)
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To: don-o
Dare to be Different!

Exceptionalism Is A Lie.

Donate to F.R.!

In Samness, There Is Peace.


4 posted on 08/27/2015 3:02:08 PM PDT by KC_Lion (This Millennial is for Cruz!)
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To: don-o

That won’t fly when those same students write their theses and doctorates.


5 posted on 08/27/2015 3:03:08 PM PDT by Slyfox (If I'm ever accused of being a Christian, I'd like there to be enough evidence to convict me)
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To: don-o

Yep we are all too “gender binary” in our thinking. You thought there are two sexes, male and female??? That’s an example of limited binary thinking.

We live in a world with 56 or so gender identities. And we have to bend over backwards to accomodate those who don’t identify based on the binary thinking so they don’t feel excluded.


6 posted on 08/27/2015 3:03:23 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: don-o

Psychosis is the new normal.


7 posted on 08/27/2015 3:06:46 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: don-o

How is it that babies are assigned a gender at birth? Aren’t there certain physical indicators which tell us if a baby is a boy or a girl? What’s with this talk of assigning? Who is assigning a gender at birth???


8 posted on 08/27/2015 3:07:38 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: don-o

Like Starbucks tried to rename coffee cup sizes.


9 posted on 08/27/2015 3:08:37 PM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag ( Anything FREELY-GIVEN by the government was TAKEN from someone else)
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To: don-o

Can the day be far away when someone is shunned - or fined, or imprisoned - for using a word like “he” or “she”?


10 posted on 08/27/2015 3:09:04 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: don-o

B A, bay
B E, bee
B I, bikkiby
B O, bow

Bikkiby bo B U boo

Bikkiby bo boo.

(With apologies to the 3 Stooges)


11 posted on 08/27/2015 3:10:18 PM PDT by Stormdog (A rifle transforms one from subject to Citizen)
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To: don-o
Good GOD, my native state at work. Embarrassing itself to no end.

Oh well, the Viles still can't beat Florida or Bama.

12 posted on 08/27/2015 3:11:11 PM PDT by Marathoner (Cruz or Lose 2016)
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To: Sacajaweau
It will be hard for Frenchmen trying to speak English.

"Where is Mr. Jones? Is ze in zis room?"

"Yes, ze is ze gentleman over zere, in ze blue suit."

13 posted on 08/27/2015 3:12:53 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: don-o

ze or not ze...


14 posted on 08/27/2015 3:13:10 PM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: don-o

Idiocracy


15 posted on 08/27/2015 3:14:42 PM PDT by lacrew
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To: don-o

Hey UT Knoxville - eff off


16 posted on 08/27/2015 3:17:05 PM PDT by lesko
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To: don-o

Actually, human persons have sexes, i.e., male or female, not genders.

A gender is a grammatical construct. Nouns, pronouns and adjectives have genders.


17 posted on 08/27/2015 3:17:14 PM PDT by HapaxLegamenon
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To: don-o

Zem are a bunch of azzholes.


18 posted on 08/27/2015 3:19:23 PM PDT by USMCPOP (Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
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To: don-o

Public shaming needs to happen to Zim.


19 posted on 08/27/2015 3:23:24 PM PDT by freedomjusticeruleoflaw
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To: don-o

Heres is a word? Here is pronounced as it looks. Hears is a word. But heres.


20 posted on 08/27/2015 3:26:07 PM PDT by healy61
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