Apparently the Office of Civil Rights in the U.S. Department of Education launched a civil rights investigation at Taft College due to “misgendering”. What horrific events spurred the investigation? The student’s professors tried to use the plural pronouns but didn’t always succeed. It is understandably difficult for someone delivering collegiate-level instruction to remember to refer...
Pronoun battle ends with a win
Turns out leftist ideology has a fatal flaw when it comes to public institutions. The leftists keep pushing this mantra of how fundamentally flawed our society is, in essence making a political argument about race and gender. They want to use this political ideology to restrict speech. But you can’t compel political speech at public institutions. More detail on the 6th Circuit ruling here...
U North Dakota backs down on mandatory preferred pronouns and open bathrooms
UND was proposing a plan that ... would require the use of a transgender person’s preferred pronouns and the use of facilities that align with their gender identity. Guess what happened next? Public uproar: UND has stopped work on a proposed gender inclusion policy that caught the attention of the North Dakota Catholic Conference and sparked a community conversation. In a message released on the...
Universities cannot compel professors to use preferred pronouns
I missed this case from last March. It explains why NCSU allows students to enter their preferred pronouns into the student information system, but says nothing about faculty using them. Shawnee State University instituted a policy requiring that students be referred to by their preferred pronouns, and a faculty member refused to comply. He filed a federal lawsuit, and the Sixth Circuit’s...