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Oxford Students Told to Use ‘Ze’ Instead of ‘He’ or ‘She’ (microagression against trannies)
Breitbart ^ | 12 Dec 2016 | Donna Rachel Edmunds

Posted on 12/12/2016 11:49:51 AM PST by drewh

Students at Oxford University have been told to use the pronoun “ze” rather than “he” or “she” to eliminate discrimination against transgender people. Guidance offered in a leaflet by the students’ union advises against using traditional pronouns, arguing that doing so suggests there are only two genders. Deliberately using the wrong pronoun for a transgendered person is an offence under the union’s code of conduct.

Peter Tatchell, an LGBT rights campaigner, has welcomed the move, telling Mail Online: “It is a positive thing to not always emphasise gender divisions and barriers.”

He said: “It is good to have gender-neutral pronouns for those who want them but it shouldn’t be compulsory.

“This issue isn’t about being politically correct or censoring anyone. It’s about acknowledging the fact of changing gender identities and respecting people’s right to not define themselves as male or female.

“Giving people the ‘ze’ option is a thoughtful, considerate move.”

Cambridge University has also indicated that it would like to follow a similar path. Sophie Buck, welfare officer of the students’ union, said: “Events start with a speaker introducing themselves using a gender neutral pronoun.

“It’s part of a drive to make the union intersectional.”

And Franky Sissons, a transgender student at King’s College at Cambridge, said: “Gender neutral pronouns are good…It should happen in lectures too.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: education; homosexualagenda; oxford
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To: katana
But more seriously, what an infantile pack of absolute fracking arseholes.

You have just provided a succinct description of Social Justice Warriors.
61 posted on 12/12/2016 2:42:08 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Chode
Thank you so much for that chart. I've been wandering around in the desert for years wondering what I am.

AT LAST- the answer:

Wow, a weight has been lifted from my shoulders. I feeeeeel so much better.

62 posted on 12/12/2016 2:42:58 PM PST by upchuck (Obama once thought that he belonged to the ages. Now he belongs in the rubbish bin. h/t D.Greenfield)
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To: drewh

Ze man is wearing ze woman’s cloths.


63 posted on 12/12/2016 2:43:06 PM PST by meyer (There is no political solution to this troubling evolution...)
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To: drewh
Is ze really a surgeon general?
64 posted on 12/12/2016 3:04:43 PM PST by Stopthethreat
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To: metmom

+1


65 posted on 12/12/2016 3:06:00 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Stopthethreat

That looks more like a sturgeon general!


66 posted on 12/12/2016 3:07:19 PM PST by Reily
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To: NorthMountain
LOL!!! here ya go...

67 posted on 12/12/2016 3:13:52 PM PST by Chode (You Owe Them Nothing - Not Respect, Not Loyalty, Not Obedience, NOTHING! ich bin ein Deplorable...)
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To: Reily

No. Ze really is surgeon general of Pennsylvania. Zis (or is it it Zer?) name is Dr. Rachel Levine.


68 posted on 12/12/2016 3:14:11 PM PST by Stopthethreat
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To: drewh
That could get confusing.

Do foreign students who can't pronounce "th" have to avoid the definite article from now on?

69 posted on 12/12/2016 3:15:15 PM PST by x
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To: upchuck
glad i could have been of service... your bill is in the mail. 8^)
70 posted on 12/12/2016 3:15:25 PM PST by Chode (You Owe Them Nothing - Not Respect, Not Loyalty, Not Obedience, NOTHING! ich bin ein Deplorable...)
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To: clintonh8r

French nouns are all assigned a gender (le=masculine la=feminine) Will the French have to rewrite the language to include transgender articles like ze and za?


71 posted on 12/12/2016 3:24:12 PM PST by Stopthethreat
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To: Chode
P Channel ...

Now I can put down the play-doh and come out of my safe space ...

72 posted on 12/12/2016 3:25:10 PM PST by NorthMountain
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To: drewh
Did they consider the possessive and objective. Would that be “zis” and “zers”, and “zim” and “zer”.

And what about the plurals? Would that be “zey”, “ziers”, and “zem”.

How about just using “it”, or would they make that “zit”and “zits”?

Zey should go f—k zemselves!

73 posted on 12/12/2016 3:30:13 PM PST by foxfield (Support the Tea Party. The Tea Party supports you.)
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To: drewh
This issue isn’t about being politically correct or censoring anyone.

On the contrary, it has absolutely no point whatever outside of being politically correct and censoring people.

74 posted on 12/12/2016 3:37:14 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Candor7

Sie sind ein idiot as against du bist ein idiot.

I get it.


75 posted on 12/12/2016 4:00:36 PM PST by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum)
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To: clintonh8r

Zit, Zits?


76 posted on 12/12/2016 4:13:20 PM PST by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: Candor7
He passed the idiot test:


77 posted on 12/12/2016 4:16:03 PM PST by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum)
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To: drewh


78 posted on 12/12/2016 4:17:31 PM PST by Brown Deer (Pray for 0bama. Psalm 109:8)
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To: NorthMountain
heh heh heh heh...
79 posted on 12/12/2016 4:19:55 PM PST by Chode (You Owe Them Nothing - Not Respect, Not Loyalty, Not Obedience, NOTHING! ich bin ein Deplorable...)
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To: drewh

What absurd horseshit.


80 posted on 12/12/2016 4:38:58 PM PST by Reynoldo
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