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on September 6, 2015 in World News

UT Removes Gender-Neutral Pronouns

UT Removes Gender-Neutral Pronouns by William Bigelow The University of Tennessee, bucking political correctness, has ruled that the school’s Office for Diversity and Inclusion website will have to remove gender-neutral pronouns. On Friday, rebuffing The Office for Diversity and Inclusion’s desire for students and faculty to use terms such as “ze,” “xe,”and “xem,” UT President Joe DiPietro sent a message to university trustees reassuring them that the gender-neutral pronouns will be expunged. That message was also transmitted to some Republican legislative leaders who had said the university was bowing to political correctness if it allowed the gender-neutral pronouns to stay…. View Article

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