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.
In a trans awareness input I gave at work a while back, I made a point of introducing the slide on misgendering as "Ladies and Gentlemen."
I went on to enquire if anybody present was the landowner of a country estate. Naturally, none were. So it was objective irrefutable truth that none of them were ladies or gentlemen because that is a necessary criterion to have the title of lady or gentleman. It doesn't matter what plumbing arrangements you have. No estate, no gentry status.
The obvious and minimum point to draw was "treat people with courtesy regardless of your beliefs." That someone is not in fact gentry is no reason not to treat them with the respect you might accord an actual lady or gentleman (this probably works best in the British class context!) However, I did try to build that up to a broader understanding of the assault on understanding that right wing language policing of what words are allowed to mean represented.
Most likely people assigned female at birth who use 'Dr' as a title will be arrested and charged for male impersonation and practicing medicine "in the wrong sex."
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.
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!
Texas is an abomination. It never should have been annexed into the US. The campaign for statehood was based on a Potemkin-styled misinformation propaganda campaign that became the basis for the sarcastic saying, "Everything is bigger in Texas."
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).
My husband just cancelled a planned talk in the Texas Tech Computer Science Department. No one should agree to contribute to the intellectual life of an institution that capitulates to the scapegoating of trans people and has thus given up academic freedom.
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‼️🌈
Wow, this is going to be pretty rough on biology/zoology professors. They're going to have to find or write new binary-compliant textbooks and trash large chunks of their course content.
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.
In a trans awareness input I gave at work a while back, I made a point of introducing the slide on misgendering as "Ladies and Gentlemen."
I went on to enquire if anybody present was the landowner of a country estate. Naturally, none were. So it was objective irrefutable truth that none of them were ladies or gentlemen because that is a necessary criterion to have the title of lady or gentleman. It doesn't matter what plumbing arrangements you have. No estate, no gentry status.
The obvious and minimum point to draw was "treat people with courtesy regardless of your beliefs." That someone is not in fact gentry is no reason not to treat them with the respect you might accord an actual lady or gentleman (this probably works best in the British class context!) However, I did try to build that up to a broader understanding of the assault on understanding that right wing language policing of what words are allowed to mean represented.
What about women who use Dr? Should they be banned from using that honorific, or stripped of their degrees altogether?
Most likely people assigned female at birth who use 'Dr' as a title will be arrested and charged for male impersonation and practicing medicine "in the wrong sex."
Sean is somewhat gender-ambiguous (although the feminine spelling is often Sian). My partner is Jay -- guess their gender?
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.
This is why every day I teach I wonder if this is the day I will say something scientifically accurate that gets me fired.
Me to. Next, global warming, evolution, geology, and of course the earth is flat
As a professor in Texas as well as a transgender women, holy F’ck.
If you're out, you should tell your students, with heavy, dripping sarcasm, that you no longer exist.
I teach physics. Also, they know. Also, made the joke that I can’t grade there tests anymore because I don’t exist….
Haha... Good for you! ;-)
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!
To me, Texas doesn't exist.
Texas is an abomination. It never should have been annexed into the US. The campaign for statehood was based on a Potemkin-styled misinformation propaganda campaign that became the basis for the sarcastic saying, "Everything is bigger in Texas."
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!
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
FUCK TEXAS.
My husband just cancelled a planned talk in the Texas Tech Computer Science Department. No one should agree to contribute to the intellectual life of an institution that capitulates to the scapegoating of trans people and has thus given up academic freedom.
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 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🥳
Wow, this is going to be pretty rough on biology/zoology professors. They're going to have to find or write new binary-compliant textbooks and trash large chunks of their course content.
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.