The prestigious University of Oxford wants students to replace “she” and “he” with the more gender-neutral pronoun “ze.”



The university’s behavior code states that using the wrong pronoun for a transgender person is considered an offense, and a new leaflet distributed by the student union supposedly aims to cut down on hurt feelings and discrimination by encouraging students to use “ze” instead, the Independent reports.oxford



British gay rights activist Peter Tatchell applauded the move.



“It is a positive thing to not always emphasize gender divisions and barriers,” he told the Daily Mail.



“It is good to have gender-neutral pronouns for those who want them but it shouldn’t be compulsory,” Tatchell said. “This issue isn’t about being politically correct or censoring anyone. It’s about acknowledging the fact of changing gender identities and respecting people’s right to not define themselves as male or female.”



“Giving people the ‘ze’ option is a thoughtful, considerate move,” he said.



The change suggested by the Oxford’s student union follows a trend of schools moving toward more “gender inclusive” language to describe students who don’t want to be labeled male or female.



The University of Tennessee’s Office for Diversity and Inclusion issued a list of suggested gender-neutral pronouns for students that included “ze,” as well as other terms like “xe,” “hir,” “zir,” “xem,” and “wyr” to identify transgender students that created a public firestorm, The Tennessean reports.



Officials later removed the guidance from the university’s website amid the backlash, according to EAGnews.



In England, Cambridge University is also moving toward more “inclusive” language, and student welfare officer Sophie Buck told The Sunday Times student union events there “start with a speaker introducing themselves using a gender neutral pronoun.



“It’s part of a drive to make the union intersectional,” she said.

Being fully converged, they are no longer fit for their original purpose of educating the sons of the elite.Remember, this is all entirely predictable. It is the Impossibility of Social Justice Convergence on display: No institution can effectively serve two different functions. The more an institution converges towards the highest abstract standard of social and distributive justice, the less it is able to perform its primary function.From SJWs Always Lie: Taking Down the Thought Police There is no point trying to debate about what the purpose of a university is any longer. The public should stop funding them, their assets should be seized and distributed to the public, and new institutions will rise up to take their place. Nothing of value will be lost in the process, because they're already not educating anyone anyhow.It's fascinating to see how quickly allowing women to attend the elite universities destroyed an institution that was centuries old. One would think someone, somewhere, would eventually notice that the same pattern is playing out again, and again, and again in a wide variety of institutions, from the men's clubs to the churches.CORRECTION: Apparently the situation at Oxford is not QUITE as bad as the article makes it look. It's only the Oxford Student Union that has adopted this policy, not the entire university. So, it's about 3-5 years less converged than the article describes it.

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