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Gender Pronoun Buttons Introduced by Uni of Kansas
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DECEMBER 29, 2016 —Buttons featuring gender pronouns are flying off the library shelves at the University of Kansas, where a campaign headed by the school's library system aims to make students with varying gender identities feel welcome.
The pins, originally intended for library employees to wear as part of the system's "You Belong Here" marketing effort, have proven popular with students as well. There are three versions available: "He him his," "She her hers," and "They them theirs," for people who don't identify as male or female.
"Because gender is, itself, fluid and up to the individual," a library sign reads. "Each person has the right to identify their own pronouns, and we encourage you to ask before assuming someone's gender. Pronouns matter! Misgendering someone can have lasting consequences, and using the incorrect pronoun can be hurtful, disrespectful, and invalidate someone's identity."
With its library buttons, the University of Kansas in Lawrence joins a growing number of schools making efforts to accommodate students who are transgender or who don't identify as any gender at all. Some, such as Champlain College and the University of Vermont, in Burlington, Vt., have supplied similar gender pronoun pins and name tags to students and staff. Others, including Harvard College in Cambridge, Mass., and the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, made headlines when they began letting students register their own pronouns for official university use.
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