Do you suppose that soon state governments, or the federal government, will make lists pf approved baby names based on gender so that pronouns signifiers are unnecessary? Imagine the confusion these conservatives must feel when dealing with all the Kellys, Leslies, Sams, and others whose names have for centuries been common to both people who identify either as men or women.
I don't know about federally approved baby names based on gender, though I would bet that gender-ambiguous names will decline in coming years.
But we can reasonably expect that gender-inclusive formulations such as "his or her" and "he or she" will be prohibited in legislation and in federal workplace communications, in favor of a return to the generic "he," "him," and "man" to refer to humans generically, and that the honorific 'Ms.' will be disallowed as an expression of leftist "gender ideology," with only 'Mrs.' or 'Miss' allowed for employees who were not assigned male at birth.
What about married women who kept their "maiden" names? Would they use Miss, or would they use Mrs along with their birth surname? Silly question: Married women who retain their original last names will be investigated as possible gender ideology terrorists.
If you must forbid the mere mention of people unlike yourself, because you fear that everyone would want to be more like them than you if they knew they had a choice... that's a pretty damning admission of how low your opinion of yourself truly is.
I just imagine that all these lawmakers are eggs thinking "everyone wants to be the other gender, it's something we really have to stop talking about because it's impossible". Yeah, not everyone. Just trans people ;)
More likely, they are just chatbots regurgitating their training material. Haven't ever heard them form an independent thought.
Guess even the hypocrites are bigger in Texas!! Such censoring snowflakes. Next they’ll be hanging the 10 commandments in colleges as if conservatives don’t have higher rates of adultery and every other bad behavior condemned by the commandments (…not to mention the whole worshiping Trump cult thing).
That seems like a huge curtailment of the “freedom of speech” that Republicans seem to love touting when it involves their own disgusting hate speech. I say professors should NOT comply in advance. Instead, they should continue to proudly support their trans students! 🏳️⚧️ 💕 And these colleges need to start valuing people over financial profit or soon there aren’t going to be any people coming to their school! The more they capitulate fascism, the more people are not going to want to attend their institution for college! Like what happened with Columbia! It’s also morally wrong for them to put their precious endowments and government funds ahead of the well-being of their students!
I haven’t thought of the word “triggered” for quite a while. Though it seems obvious that people who feel safest in a “black and white world” are on the edge of realizing that they may belong to a rainbow parade‼️🌈
The more hate that is spit onto this society the more love will counteract it. I say let the Christian Nationalist make hypocrites out of themselves so they turn more people against them. Hate never wins y’all, not even in the movies.
I read the headline quickly and thought it said "Texas Universities Are Now Banning Professors From Even Knowing Trans People Exist” and thought it was the Onion which I also get via email.
Sometimes I have no words ~ this is one of those times.
Please stay strong everyone! Lock arms and hold the line!
Sending love!
Thanks for this story, S. Baum.
Do you suppose that soon state governments, or the federal government, will make lists pf approved baby names based on gender so that pronouns signifiers are unnecessary? Imagine the confusion these conservatives must feel when dealing with all the Kellys, Leslies, Sams, and others whose names have for centuries been common to both people who identify either as men or women.
I don't know about federally approved baby names based on gender, though I would bet that gender-ambiguous names will decline in coming years.
But we can reasonably expect that gender-inclusive formulations such as "his or her" and "he or she" will be prohibited in legislation and in federal workplace communications, in favor of a return to the generic "he," "him," and "man" to refer to humans generically, and that the honorific 'Ms.' will be disallowed as an expression of leftist "gender ideology," with only 'Mrs.' or 'Miss' allowed for employees who were not assigned male at birth.
What about married women who kept their "maiden" names? Would they use Miss, or would they use Mrs along with their birth surname? Silly question: Married women who retain their original last names will be investigated as possible gender ideology terrorists.
What do you expect from the worst state in this country Fl being the second
These two states have the worst records for failing to support their citizens of any persuasion We should call them trump country
To me, Texas doesn't exist.
If you must forbid the mere mention of people unlike yourself, because you fear that everyone would want to be more like them than you if they knew they had a choice... that's a pretty damning admission of how low your opinion of yourself truly is.
I just imagine that all these lawmakers are eggs thinking "everyone wants to be the other gender, it's something we really have to stop talking about because it's impossible". Yeah, not everyone. Just trans people ;)
More likely, they are just chatbots regurgitating their training material. Haven't ever heard them form an independent thought.
Guess even the hypocrites are bigger in Texas!! Such censoring snowflakes. Next they’ll be hanging the 10 commandments in colleges as if conservatives don’t have higher rates of adultery and every other bad behavior condemned by the commandments (…not to mention the whole worshiping Trump cult thing).
Texit can’t come soon enough!
Texit! Yes!
That seems like a huge curtailment of the “freedom of speech” that Republicans seem to love touting when it involves their own disgusting hate speech. I say professors should NOT comply in advance. Instead, they should continue to proudly support their trans students! 🏳️⚧️ 💕 And these colleges need to start valuing people over financial profit or soon there aren’t going to be any people coming to their school! The more they capitulate fascism, the more people are not going to want to attend their institution for college! Like what happened with Columbia! It’s also morally wrong for them to put their precious endowments and government funds ahead of the well-being of their students!
This is why every day I teach I wonder if this is the day I will say something scientifically accurate that gets me fired.
I haven’t thought of the word “triggered” for quite a while. Though it seems obvious that people who feel safest in a “black and white world” are on the edge of realizing that they may belong to a rainbow parade‼️🌈
Kindness is catching🥳
WTF are these doing,
Why does it matter do them?
The more hate that is spit onto this society the more love will counteract it. I say let the Christian Nationalist make hypocrites out of themselves so they turn more people against them. Hate never wins y’all, not even in the movies.
They are so threatened by anything not cemented in their bullshit, manufactured boxes.
Change will come, ya’ll. It’s in the air. You can feel it. Stay strong. 🌈
I read the headline quickly and thought it said "Texas Universities Are Now Banning Professors From Even Knowing Trans People Exist” and thought it was the Onion which I also get via email.