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At the University of Tennessee, students and staff have been asked by the Office for Diversity and Inclusion to embrace gender-neutral pronouns into their vocabulary and to ask for their peers’ pronouns when possible. 

This is not a mandate from the school, but rather a suggestion that was sent out via a resource provided in a campus newsletter.

“Transgender people and people who do not identify within the gender binary may use a different name than their legal name and pronouns of their gender identity, rather than the pronouns of the sex they were assigned at birth,” the University of Tennessee’s Pride Center Director, Donna Braquet, wrote on the university’s website Wednesday.

Braquet requested that teachers, rather than calling roll, will instead ask each student to provide the name and pronoun he or she – or ze – wishes to be referred by. She says it relieves a burden for people expressing different genders or identities.

“The name a student uses may not be the one on the official roster, and the roster name may not be the same gender as the one the student now uses,” Braquet wrote.

In Tennessee, of all places? Amazing. 

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