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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lycanthrope" data-source="post: 51490" data-attributes="member: 562">[h=1]Colleges trend toward gender-neutral pronouns[/h]<img src="https://nodakangler.com/forums/images/not_found/2015/09/635765285091793617AP050825020063-1.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />NASHVILLE — Gender-neutral pronouns like ze and xyr have pulled the University of Tennessee into the national spotlight and the crosshairs of legislators, but the school is far from a radical outlier.Instead, it is one of many colleges across the country that is looking for ways <a href="http://tnne.ws/1UvTRFl" target="_blank">to accommodate students who don’t identify as strictly male or female</a>. Steps taken recently at Vanderbilt University, Harvard University and the University of California system,  among others, represent a more aggressive push for gender-neutral  pronouns than the column posted last week on Tennessee’s website. That  post explained the use of gender-neutral pronouns and encouraged  students and professors to discuss them.At Vanderbilt in  Nashville, a more familiar gender-neutral pronoun was added to the  student handbook in August. Variations are used as single-person  pronouns alongside forms of he and she. A statement in the handbook said  the addition was made in an effort to create "a community that is  welcoming and inclusive to individuals of all gender identities and  expressions."Student leaders at Vanderbilt also are working with  administrators to allow students to indicate the pronouns they use on  class rosters and housing assignments.<a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/06/21/gender-millennials-dormitories-sex/10573099/" target="_blank"><img src="https://nodakangler.com/forums/images/not_found/2015/09/1402934775000GenderBlurring13123206JPG-1.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/06/21/gender-millennials-dormitories-sex/10573099/" target="_blank">USA TODAY</a><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/06/21/gender-millennials-dormitories-sex/10573099/" target="_blank">Gender loses its impact with the young</a><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/06/21/gender-millennials-dormitories-sex/10573099/" target="_blank"></a>At  Harvard this year, students are getting the chance to indicate their  preferred gender-neutral pronouns during registration, according to news  reports. Also this year, students applying to schools in the University  of California system can choose between six gender identities in an  optional question on the application.Other public schools in Tennessee have taken steps similar to UT’s without as much controversy. Middle Tennessee State University  added a glossary of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender terms to its  website last summer that defined ze, hir and hirs as pronouns that  might be "preferred by some gender diverse persons."MTSU spokesman Jimmy Hart  said the university added the glossary as a resource for students, not a  policy, echoing UT's response to its own web post in which Pride Center  Director Donna Braquet suggested students and professors should ask  each other what pronouns they use, including gender-neutral options like  ze or xe.Despite UT's insistence that the post was not meant to  become a mandatory directive, Republican lawmakers have reacted with  outrage. State Sen. Bo Watson said the pronouns were a "ridiculous suggestion" and called for legislators to investigate the post.State senators will meet to discuss the post and "higher education governance" next month.</blockquote>

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