Florida’s Public Universities Go Full Throttle to Fuel the Preferred-Pronoun Revolution – Opinion

Florida’s public colleges are eager to join the pronoun jamboree.

Just a few years ago, a conversation about pronouns might’ve been unbearably boring. But these days, it’s sexier than sex — if it wasn’t, it wouldn’t be replacing it. And though conservative Ron DeSantis is governor of the state, Florida’s public universities are passionately pursuing pronoun progress.

The Campus Reform

In Fall 2021…[University of South Florida] student newspaper The Oracle reported on the school’s plan to begin allowing students, faculty, and staff to add preferred pronouns to their USF IDs.

This new policy is designed to improve campus inclusivity and make them more welcoming. [USF]Student Government (SG LT. Campus Reform heard from Governor Kiara Brooks.

“University Communications and Marketing is in discussion with [SG]Support the redesign of your ID Card [putting preferred pronouns on ID cards],” the USF ID Card Office said when asked for comment. 

And there’s a sophisticated system on the rise: Via the Identity Management System [IMS]Students will be able to plug in their favorite pronouns within an extensive network.

According to Kiara, platforms will include “(student record system) Oasis, (enrolee engagement app) Bulls Connect, (degree audit and tracking tool) Degree Works, and even possibly the housing and GEMS (Graduates as Emerging Mentors) portals.”

USF launches IMS The fall.

Florida State University Panama City, another Sunshine State school that lets students use their pronouns freely is Florida State University Panama City. Online identification allows attendees to show off their style.

According to the policy, chosen pronouns “will display after your name in several different areas of Canvas as an easy way to communicate with your classmates and instructors which pronouns best reflect your identity. You will be able to see yours and others’ personal pronouns in several areas of the course including discussions, comment fields, user profile pages, and your inbox.”

Florida International University has also been on the winning side:

[FIU]PantherNow reports that students now have the option to choose preferred pronouns through its online system. Professors then need to use these, as per a PantherNow report.

Oddly, none of this has any appreciable effect on communication, as preferred pronouns aren’t used when speaking to someone.

In a mysterious move, the referential revolution has chosen to replace every involved word except the one actually employed in direct address: “you.” In almost all cases, wokesters identifying as the opposite of their sex or something beyond the binary will never know — and, therefore, never be impacted by — whether anyone uses their soul-singing selections.

It might be good that everyone’s off the hook; after all, its a stunningly sophisticated setup:

 

Of course, Florida’s preferred-pronoun issue isn’t one of “inclusion.” It’s a question of whether the Florida public education apparatus subscribes to the employment of an all-new, unprecedented layer of identity. As institutions could decide one day that every American must pick their preferred color, so is culture currently trying to include favored words as sexual signifiers.

This is what I wrote recently:

Progressively, it isn’t that youngsters believe they’re born in the wrong bodies. Institutions are simply giving them a choice: You can be anything; construct your own creature like you’re at Build-A-Bear.

It’s a huge opportunity to make a living from the binary. …

Beyond men and women, culture’s cutting-edge concept of gender identity isn’t enmeshed with sex. A new category’s been created, and we’re being told to come up with all-new identifiers. The idea seems to have emerged from the time of participation trophies, and the age icons. Thanks to social media and online gaming, we’re screen names, emojis, and colorful characters. They are a way to show our personality and inspire our creative flair. Only a matter of times before we chose special people to share in real life.

Back to Florida, it’s committed to reform all around:

University’s ‘SEXXX’ Week Welcomes Hookers to Discuss Legalization, Raffles off Cylindrical Supplements

The University holds a graduation ceremony for LGBTQIA+ students

Free Speech Organization Sues Florida University Over ‘Chilling’ Policies

Florida University Launches a Degree Program to Train ‘Social Justice’ Activists

University Christens Collective Space the ‘Karl Marx Group Study Room’

Florida School District Instructs Teachers to Keep Parents in the Dark on Their Children’s Transgender Identity

The south’s treasured vacation state is transforming. You should be hydrated if you plan to take a dip in the south’s rays this summer. But, remember that your waking state may lie within the water.

If you don’t, then enjoy yourself.

-ALEX

 

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