As the Daily Caller notes, WVU 'offers a handy guide on ‘Proper pronoun usage’ that explains how to swap out pronouns such as he, him and his for … pronouns such as ‘ve,’ ‘ver’ and ‘vis.''
- The ideological goal of imposing many new pronouns is to blur, stigmatize and outlaw the public’s long-standing social and legal distinctions between men and women. Progressives and transgender activists sneer at those distinctions as the 'gender binary.' -
According to the ''guide,' a recommended way of introducing oneself to another individual at WVU is: 'My name is Tou and my pronouns are he and him. What about you?'
'Try making pronouns an optional part of introductions or check-ins at meetings or in class,' urges WVU, with the warning, 'Remember that people may change their pronouns without changing their name, appearance, or gender identity.'
In the case of a faux pas – i.e., a fellow student or professor uses the wrong pronoun – WVU suggests dealing with the error in this way:
Most people appreciate a quick apology and correction at the time of the mistake.
Try: 'Her books are—I’m sorry, he r [sic] books are over there.' By correcting yourself, you’re modeling respectful pronoun use for others in the conversation. If you only realize the mistake later, a brief apology can help.
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I’m sorry I used the [sic] wrong pronoun earlier. I’ll be more careful next time.'
WVU provides a chart of novel pronouns to help students understand the variety of new pronouns they are expected to use.
According to one study of the 2010 census, the population of transgender people amounts to one in every 2,400 Americans, or 0.03 percent of the adult population.
- In Fairfax County, Virginia, the school board rammed through a policy change that makes children open to expulsion from school for expressing criticism of transgender ideology. -
The ideological goal of imposing many new pronouns is to blur, stigmatize and outlaw the public’s long-standing social and legal distinctions between men and women. Progressives and transgender activists sneer at those distinctions as the 'gender binary.'
President Barack Obama has spent a great deal of his last year in office promoting gender fluidity, particularly through directives about transgender bathrooms. On Friday, the president’s deputies inserted a rule into the Federal Register that prohibits all federal properties and facilities from operating single-sex bathrooms. Multiple polls show that Obama’s transgender policy is very unpopular.
Recently in Washington state, new health and physical education standards say children in kindergarten need to 'understand there are many ways to express gender.'
The standards name 'self-identity' as a topic of the 'core idea' of the K-12 curriculum, and define gender as a 'social construct based on emotional, behavioral, and cultural characteristics attached to a person’s assigned biological sex.'
- In June, more than 60 leaders concerned about the mental health of American children signed onto an open letter that asserts the Obama administration’s transgender bathroom decree for schools is 'putting the nation’s children at risk.' -
Washington state’s superintendent’s office says the state utilized the National Sexuality Education Standards, K-12 (NSES) as a resource for the new standards.
Advisory members of the NSES include Robert McGarry, Ed.D., director of training and curriculum development of GLSEN; Monica Rodriguez, MS, president of the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS); Jennifer Heitel Yakush, public policy director of SIECUS; and Leslie M. Kantor, MPH, director of national education initiatives of Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
In Fairfax County, Virginia, the school board rammed through a policy change that makes children open to expulsion from school for expressing criticism of transgender ideology.
The new regulation states: 'No student in FCPS shall … on the basis of gender identity … be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity.'
As Breitbart News reported, school board member Elizabeth Schultz, who opposed the regulation, said 'discrimination' language means that a student who speaks out against the 'gender identity' ideology can be disciplined, and presumably suspended and even expelled.
Opposition to the Obama-promoted gender fluidity narrative has taken hold, however.
A federal judge in Texas has ruled against Obama’s decree that public schools must allow students and teachers to decide which of the two sexes’ private bathrooms they desire to use at any given moment.
Led by Texas, 13 states sued the U.S. Departments of Education, Justice, Labor, and other federal agencies in U.S. District court, arguing that both Title IX and Title VII (which refers to employers) refers only to biological sex.
Judge Reed O’Connor said that, in issuing the directive, the Obama administration did not 'follow the proper legal procedure,' and further stressed that 'the Constitution assigns these policy choices to the appropriate elected and appointed officials.'
In June, more than 60 leaders concerned about the mental health of American children signed onto an open letter that asserts the Obama administration’s transgender bathroom decree for schools is 'putting the nation’s children at risk.'
'This controversial and reckless government overreach increases the risk for our children’s safety and privacy in deference to an un-tethered notion of rights,' the signers wrote. 'This policy rejects the scientific reality of every person’s biological sex. To force all Americans to comply with such an extreme and faulty premise – that every person’s sex is ‘assigned’ to them, rather than simply identified at birth – is beyond the pale.'
Additionally, a new report by renowned psychiatrists Dr. Paul McHugh and Dr. Lawrence S. Mayer reveals that most children and teens who say they are transgendered change their minds and grow up according to their biological sex.
