Wa Post & NPR want to stop us from using old politically incorrect gender pronouns
Great idea koan. Say are your progeny zes, zims or zers?
WashPost Crusades for 'Preferred Gender Pronouns' on Campus, Gender in 'Technicolor'
The Washington Post’s agenda of “expanded acceptance” for the LGBTQ agenda was apparent on the front of Friday’s Style section, with the headline: “He or she might actually favor ‘ze’: Preferred gender pronouns for transgender people get more awareness.” Reporter Ruth Tam led this indoctrination, and no one who isn’t “progressive” is included.
Tam began with an “Allied In Pride” organizer at George Washington University in DC: “To clarify their gender identity, students can request that others refer to them withtraditional pronouns (he, him, his or she, her, hers), pick from a number of hybrid options, such as ze, hir, hirs, or use the plural pronoun ‘they’ to refer to an individual.” No one (in the modern idiom) considers this “cray-cray.”
Nathan Gumas, a junior at GW, told the Post that freshmen “who come from progressive or urban areas may have been asked [for their PGPs] before, but others may not have,” he said. Asking “is one of the easiest things you can do to help out the transgender population.”
...Though Gumas’s practice of asking for his classmates’ preferred gender pronouns is not a campus-wide practice yet, Windsor says it’s indicative of how his generation views gender. “For them, gender is not necessarily permanent, and it doesn’t exist in a dichotomous system,” he said. “College students are thinking about gender in much more technicolor kinds of ways.”
The progressives insist everyone in the current youth culture must accept this topsy-turvy Jabberwocky system. If you don't "get" it, you're clearly an out-of-step fogey.
(Gumas also ran for student government, where "most importantly," he insisted GW needed to provide "free condoms" at "all times." These people have their educational priorities.)
Tam explained where “we” are all going in our unanimously liberal culture: “While varying sexual orientations have recently gained acceptance in mainstream culture, varying gender identities have yet to be widely accepted.” This was proven by an apparent lack of sympathy for traitorous Bradley Manning, who decided he was “Chelsea” on his way to jail.
Newt Gingrich’s sister Candace was also brought in for the Post’s sensitivity training session in print:
As the Human Rights Campaign’s associate director of youth and campus engagement, Candace Gingrich believes that saying “she,” “her” and “hers” when talking about Manning is less about extending courtesy than of practicing “basic human dignity.”
“You should respect how someone wants to be referred to,” Gingrich said.
In an HRC survey of 10,000 LGBTQ youth, we’re told 600 preferred “gender neutral,” “gender fluid,” or other imaginative terms. Tam was so down with the “T” lingo that she said one man was “assigned male at birth.” He prefers to be referred to as “they,” in that sympathize-with-my-schizophrenia way:
 Jess Izen, 21, a former University of Maryland student, for example, opts for the term “gender queer” and chooses to be referred to as “they.” Izen, who was assigned male at birth, began participating in queer events on campus and researching a gender transition. Even then, Izen was not interested in identifying solely as a woman. Now, after starting hormone treatment, Izen has embraced the term “transfeminine” and is referred to with feminine pronouns by a new girlfriend.
“I identify with ‘they’ more strongly than anything else,” Izen said. “But if people are confused about trans people, ‘she’ sometimes works better.”
For Izen, correcting strangers has been a daily struggle for two years.
“I want to get groceries and not have an uncomfortable encounter with someone where I have to assert something that interrupts the flow of conversation,” Izen said.
This is where the Post is completely laughable. Who in this story is “confused”? Which man needs “correcting”? In the annals of American victimization, apparently no one is more oppressed than a man who’s decided he’s a she – or a “they.” And “They” Man gets frustrated when someone tries to figure out how to sell "them" Pop-Tarts at the supermarket without getting an uncomfortable visit from the Washington Post and the Gender Fluidity Police.
Tam ended the story where she began, announcing for every Post reader that their liberal journalistic agenda isn’t an accurate description of “assigned” genders, but a willingness to shred objective reality in deference to people’s “technicolor” imaginations of their gender and the pursuit of indoctrinating the public into being “supporting and welcoming.” Sensitivity trumps all:
For college students and faculty members to use PGPs in an academic setting, Windsor says, is “a great way to show support to an individual who stands against great institutional barriers.”
...The use of PGPs has heralded wider spread acceptance of transgender and gender queer individuals, especially at college campuses. Similar initiatives include installing gender neutral bathrooms, the ability to change names and gender on official school records, and more inclusive language on school applications.
“On our campus, the reaction has been very positive,” said Luke Jensen, the director of University of Maryland at College Park’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Equity Center. In training sessions for faculty, Jensen says, he stresses the importance of providing a positive learning environment for students who don’t fit gender norms.
“I think there’s a natural inclination to be supporting and welcoming,” he said. “But I think people need to learn what that means and how you do that.”
The Washington Post certainly earns the title "Allied In Pride."
Earlier: NPR on the PGP parade. "High school students say ‘I want you to call me 'Tractor' and use pronouns like Zee, Zim, Zer.’”
Read more: newsbusters.org
Trans Posing: NPR Explores The Need to 'Loosen the Reins of Gender Expression'
You could tell it was going to be a wild night of transgender advocacy on NPR when Tuesday's All Things Considered anchor Melissa Block sent this insane-sounding tweet: “Coming up on @npratc: beyond he and she? High school students say ‘I want you to call me 'Tractor' and use pronouns like Zee, Zim, Zer.’” But wait, there is one certainty in this milieu: NPR would be channeling the Left, and there would be no time to consider conservative dissent from the evolving political correctness.
NPR reporter/pagan witch Margot Adler was exploring the brave new world of gender fluidity with young cultural innovators who reject the "gender binary" as oppressive. It came to this conclusion:
MARGOT ADLER: One of the paradoxes of culture, says Joy Ladin, is that innovation is often driven by young people.
JOY LADIN: And we say, oh, you know, they're pushing the boundaries, they're exploring new ways of being. All of that is true. But part of what enables them to do that is that they're not really sure yet where they are going.
ADLER: Ladin believes that in the future, male and female will always refer to some people but not all. The reins of gender expression will become looser.
That means that a man can insist he can be called a "him" or a "her," depending on which days it is -- or a "zim" and a "zer." Adler went looking for the Left's newest frontier at Elisabeth Irwin High School, whose alumni include Sixties radicals like Kathy Boudin and Angela Davis and the children of traitors Julius and Ethel Rosenberg:
ADLER: At the Elisabeth Irwin High School in New York City, there's a student group called Spectrum. The title was chosen because it seemed to represent what students were thinking and feeling much more than gay students association, or LGBT or even LGBTQ, for queer. I asked Harry Fernandez, a sophomore at the school who identifies as a gay male, what he means by queer.
HARRY FERNANDEZ: Kind of straying from the norm, not being what society tells you to be regarding your sexuality, your gender, who you love.
ADLER: Becka Luna Liebowitz, a freshman in the group, uses Q for another word.
BECKA LUNA LIEBOWITZ: I, myself, I guess you call it questioning.
ADLER: But some students are going further. At one college that Joy Ladin visited, things were so fluid you could make up a different pronoun for a different event.
LADIN: So you can be she/her at one event and then you go to lunch and you say, OK, now I am he/him. And then one charming young woman told me, oh, yes, today, I'm just using made up pronouns.
LYNN WALKER: We encountered high school students who said,I want you to call me 'Tractor' and use pronouns like zee, zim and zer. And, in fact, I reject the gender binary as an oppressive moveby the dominant culture.
ADLER: That's Lynn Walker, a director at Housing Works, an organization that provides housing for those with HIV. About 10 percent of their clients are transgender. Walker teaches a course called Trans 101 for all new hires. When she started coming across people who were gender non-conforming in so many different ways, she began to ask new questions.
WALKER: And then part of the intake is to say, well, what pronoun do you like today? It might be just today.
ADLER: Because Walker has clients who might be Jimmy one day, and Dolores the next.
WALKER: Once you develop the habit of saying, oh, that person, that is a she, that's Dolores. It doesn't matter that she looks rather like Jimmy or looks like she was called Jimmy by her parents.
ADLER: And your decision doesn't depend on gender reassignment surgery, which is expensive and is something often only a certain class of people can do. What you look like, she says, isn't always who you are.
FERNANDEZ: In a perfect world, your gender would just be what you want it to be. Gender would sort of just be an individual title, not really a male or female thing.
In a "perfect world," you could be a "trans poseur," switching identities at the drop of a hat. This way, you could cleverly find yourself oppressed by "pronoun bigotry" in whichever social situation you're currently located. What creates this world of gender anarchy, gender whims instead of gender norms, in complete defiance of reason and science? Making it a "civil rights issue" where "transgenders" are oppressed and subject to violence. That's how the story began:
MARGOT ADLER: It began with a speaking event at Oberlin College in Ohio. I was at dinner with the college chaplain and 16 students on his interfaith council. I was startled when everyone introduced themselves saying their name, what year they were, what they were studying and then described their preferred gender pronouns. I wasn't taping but it sounded similar to these high school students introducing themselves to me recently in New York.
RUSSELL LASDON: I'm Russell Lasdon and I use he/him/his pronouns.
KETZEL FEASLEY: I'm Ketzel Feasley and my PGP's are she/her/hers.
ADLER: For those of you who have never heard this done, as I hadn't, this is happening on many campuses. It's a way of being supportive or an ally to those who are transgender or gender non-conforming. Those who are not cisgender - that is, their emotional gender identity does not match their biology.
I admit my first reaction was it felt cult-like and I thought, these people are paying $50,000 a year for college and this is what they care about most -- what pronouns you use? [This was the closest the story came to disapproval, and it quickly lapsed.]
When during my college days we were fighting for civil rights, registering voters in Mississippi and facing tear gas and fire hoses. But then I stopped and thought about it.
I went to one of the smartest people I know in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community, Carl Siciliano. He is the executive director of the Ali Forney Center for LGBT homeless youth. Of the nine homeless young people who have been murdered in New York since he ran the center, seven of them, he says, were transgender. They experience more violence at home, at school, and on the streets.
CARL SICILIANO: It's just so abundantly clear to me that trans kids face an enormously disproportionate burden of the bigotry and the hostility and the hatred that's directed against the LGBT community.
ADLER: So, he says to me, these college students you saw identifying with transgender people, the most marginalized group in our society, how different is that from you, when you were in college, identifying with the most marginalized and joining the black Civil Rights movement? He brought me up short. I had to think long and hard.
Apparently, that's because blacks had to use separate bathrooms, and in today's civil rights struggle, the "transgender" activists want to use whichever bathroom they feel like today.
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