Governor of New York Signs Law Banning ‘Gendered Language’ in Workplaces

[Kamaji]

Governor of New York Signs Law Banning ‘Gendered Language’ in Workplaces

By Eric Lendrum
August 22, 2022

On Thursday, New York Governor Kathy Hochul (D-N.Y.) signed a bill into law that bans so-called “gendered language” from being used in professional settings, including words such as “salesman.”

As reported by the Daily Caller, the newly-signed Senate Bill 536 declares that all uses of gender-specific language in the workplace be replaced with “gender-neutral” terminology, such as replacing “salesman” with “salesperson,” as well as replacing “he/him” and “she/her” pronouns with “their.”

“This legislation amends Real Property Tax Law Article 12-a to change the word salesman to salesperson,” the bill reads. “Further this legislation removes gendered language from the Article by removing references to ‘his or her’ in favor of ‘their,’ changes ‘himself’ to ‘themselves,’ as well as appropriate changes to variations of these words.”

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Source:  https://amgreatness.com/2022/08/22/governor-of-new-york-signs-law-banning-gendered-language-in-workplaces/

[Kamaji]

[mountaineer]

Government telling people what to say. That may be problematic.

[andy58-in-nh]

Government telling people what to say. That may be problematic.

Apparently, "free speech" is now considered an artifact of white privilege, hetero-normativism and patriarchal, cisgendered assumptions in New York. 

[SZonian]

On its face, this appears to be a clear cut case of 1st Amendment infringement.

However, given all the "hate crime" legislation on the books, I suppose they figure they have this buttoned up real nice.

It'll be interesting to see what happens when this eventually gets challenged in court.

[DefiantMassRINO]

Grammarians will be most upset.  This is an unconstitutional attack upon the grammatical order of mankind.

First, this is absolutlely incorrect by the rules of grammar ...

"their" is not an appropriate subsititute for multiple reasons:

1.) him/her are not possessive - "their" is possessive
2.) him/her are singular - "their" is plural

The proper non-gender replacement pronoun for him/her is "it".  "it" is the third person, non-possessive, singular pronoun.

In what world does it make sense to substitute a possessive, plural pronoun for a singular, non-possessive pronoun?

[GtHawk]

So 'gendered language' like manlift, manifold, manager, manual, mandatory, manmade, manhole, manipulate, manufacture, maneuver, manicure, etc., etc.

[andy58-in-nh]

So 'gendered language' like manlift, manifold, manager, manual, mandatory, manmade, manhole, manipulate, manufacture, maneuver, manicure, etc., etc.

How about "maniac"?

[GtHawk]

How about "maniac"?

I don't know, how else would you refer to democrats?