Posted on 01/28/2016 7:25:37 AM PST by beejaa
Poster-updating costs alone would reach into the millions.
The Department of Labor has proposed a rule that would remove the words 'he' and 'she' from an anti-discrimination regulation in order to "avoid the gender binary" - which is obviously something that must be avoided at all costs.
The rule replaces "he" or "she" with the individual, 'person,' or other appropriate identifier," according to the document's text.
(So - wait - does that mean "he" and "she" are inappropriate identifiers?)
It also updates the list of things that count as banned discrimination under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act to include "sex stereotyping, transgender status, and gender identity."
As the Washington Free Beacon notes, the change would require job centers to spend $4 million updating their posters and equal opportunity notices alone - something the department referred to as an "important benefit to society."
"Our nation's workforce system should reflect our commitment to diversity," U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas E. Perez said according to the announcement of the rules.
That same announcement referred to the changes as being "necessary."
(You know . . . kind of like food or water or air.)
The proposed rule was released on Tuesday and will be open for public comment until March 28.
They? Them? It?
Agender Androgyne Androgynous Bigender Cis Cisgender Cis Female Cis Male Cis Man Cis Woman Cisgender Female Cisgender Male Cisgender Man Cisgender Woman Female to Male FTM Gender Fluid Gender Nonconforming Gender Questioning Gender Variant Genderqueer Intersex Male to Female MTF Neither Neutrois Non-binary Other Pangender Trans Trans* Trans Female Trans* Female Trans Male Trans* Male Trans Man Trans* Man Trans Person Trans* Person Trans Woman Trans* Woman Transfeminine Transgender Transgender Female Transgender Male Transgender Man Transgender Person Transgender Woman Transmasculine Transsexual Transsexual Female Transsexual Male Transsexual Man Transsexual Person Transsexual Woman Two-Spirit
yes... we need to spend $MILLIONS on this effort....
Trump needs to cut all fed spending 10% across the board.
New hires (Obama people) go first !
Call me old fashioned but I see no problem with acknowledging objective reality.
Ah yes, the “gender binary”. Otherwise known as “reality”.
CC
Lets reprint the millions of pages of government regulations. After all, its only money.
Gender Binary is what they use to program female androids.
All references to gender will now be called “shim”.
The federal government should use the all inclusive term She, He, It or Transgendered, or simply adopt the acronym S.H.I.T.
The novel “1984” predicted this, with Newspeak.
Also need to replace the patriarchal words human with huperson and woman with woperson.
Why can’t liberals just die?
Yeah, because there is no such thing as male and female of the human species. And we are called “science deniers.” Yeesh.
“The federal government should use the all inclusive term She, He, It or Transgendered, or simply adopt the acronym S.H.I.T.”
LOL
From the comment section at National Review Online: If you ponder whether you are male or female, does that make you a transponder? (credit to Namyriah)
The novel “1984†predicted this, with Newspeak.
I remember a novel, (I think the author was Ayn Rand), that had a society where the only pronoun identifiers were We, Us and They. All work teams were at least three people no matter what the work was.
The words, I, me and myself etc. were forbidden on pain of death.
Even in binary nomenclature there are two numbers 0 and 1.
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