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Cultural Background: In the United States there has been a push to use
gender-neutral language and gender pronouns when given.

This topic has created quite a storm across the network and a lot of moderators resigned or took similar actions. I am wondering if this "push" is also important in the US politics.

Question: In the United States, has there been a push to use gender-neutral language and gender pronouns when a person expresses a preference for a particular third-person pronoun to use to refer to her/him/them.

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I have just read a tiny fraction of a huge amount of content generated by the apparent abusive dismissal of an important moderator from the Stack Exchange network.

An answer that tries to explain one of the main reasons behind all this includes this:

Cultural Background: In the United States there has been a push to use
gender-neutral language and gender pronouns when given.

This topic has created quite a storm across the network and a lot of moderators resigned or took similar actions. I am wondering if this "push" is also important in the US politics.

Question: In the United States, has there been a push to use gender-neutral language and gender pronouns when a person expresses a preference for a particular third-person pronoun to use to refer to her/him/them.

united-states gender

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  What is “when given” supposed to mean here?
  
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• 
  
  
  

  
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  @chirlu Following the link in the second paragraph, it's "when given" as in "when a person expresses a preference for a particular third person pronoun to use to refer to her/him/them". I agree that in this case adding this to the question might simplify the reading of it.
  
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  A push by who and at what level? Are we talking strictly political or do major speech-controlling companies like Facebook count?
  
  – IllusiveBrian
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I have just read a tiny fraction of a huge amount of content generated by the apparent abusive dismissal of an important moderator from the Stack Exchange network.

An answer that tries to explain one of the main reasons behind all this includes this:

Cultural Background: In the United States there has been a push to use
gender-neutral language and gender pronouns when given.

This topic has created quite a storm across the network and a lot of moderators resigned or took similar actions. I am wondering if this "push" is also important in the US politics.

Question: In the United States, has there been a push to use gender-neutral language and gender pronouns when a person expresses a preference for a particular third-person pronoun to use to refer to her/him/them.

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Yes, but as a small part of the larger US culture wars

The push to use gender neutral pronouns, or to insist that people must use the pronouns that they are explicitly told to use or face ostracism and/or criminal penalty, is an extremely recent phenomenon. It's primarily a result of the broader LGBT movement successfully making gay marriage legal; now that the big agenda item for the L, G, and B people is complete, there is now greater focus on the issues of transgender people among activists and people who care about these issues.

It is hard to quantify exactly how "important" this particular push is, especially because there are multiple ways to say if and how something is "important." But it is certainly gaining in importance; 5+ years ago there was very little attention paid to transgender issues outside of the people who care the most about it.

One thing that is certain though, is that support for these issues is not uniform across the entire United States. Support for these issues tends to be highest among affluent, educated white suburban and urbanites who vote for Democrats. Thus, it is part of the larger "culture war" that goes on in America between those people and their opposites on the other side of the aisle (e.g. Republicans from "the real America").

That "culture war" is, unfortunately, rather important, as it explains a lot of recent dysfunction in US politics, one of the most important one being the insistence that everyone must be in one political tribe or another, as well as insistence on total fealty to every aspect of that tribe's agenda. If you are confused about how transgender pronouns work, you must not be a member of the left wing tribe in good standing, therefore you are potentially dangerous and need to have your moderator power taken away just in case you're not really going to decide these sorts of things the way people in our tribe are supposed to.

The right in America has the same dynamic going on right now; in their case, it's all about whether or not you support Donald Trump enough.

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Yes, but as a small part of the larger US culture wars

The push to use gender neutral pronouns, or to insist that people must use the pronouns that they are explicitly told to use or face ostracism and/or criminal penalty, is an extremely recent phenomenon. It's primarily a result of the broader LGBT movement successfully making gay marriage legal; now that the big agenda item for the L, G, and B people is complete, there is now greater focus on the issues of transgender people among activists and people who care about these issues.

It is hard to quantify exactly how "important" this particular push is, especially because there are multiple ways to say if and how something is "important." But it is certainly gaining in importance; 5+ years ago there was very little attention paid to transgender issues outside of the people who care the most about it.

One thing that is certain though, is that support for these issues is not uniform across the entire United States. Support for these issues tends to be highest among affluent, educated white suburban and urbanites who vote for Democrats. Thus, it is part of the larger "culture war" that goes on in America between those people and their opposites on the other side of the aisle (e.g. Republicans from "the real America").

That "culture war" is, unfortunately, rather important, as it explains a lot of recent dysfunction in US politics, one of the most important one being the insistence that everyone must be in one political tribe or another, as well as insistence on total fealty to every aspect of that tribe's agenda. If you are confused about how transgender pronouns work, you must not be a member of the left wing tribe in good standing, therefore you are potentially dangerous and need to have your moderator power taken away just in case you're not really going to decide these sorts of things the way people in our tribe are supposed to.

The right in America has the same dynamic going on right now; in their case, it's all about whether or not you support Donald Trump enough.

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Yes, but as a small part of the larger US culture wars

The push to use gender neutral pronouns, or to insist that people must use the pronouns that they are explicitly told to use or face ostracism and/or criminal penalty, is an extremely recent phenomenon. It's primarily a result of the broader LGBT movement successfully making gay marriage legal; now that the big agenda item for the L, G, and B people is complete, there is now greater focus on the issues of transgender people among activists and people who care about these issues.

It is hard to quantify exactly how "important" this particular push is, especially because there are multiple ways to say if and how something is "important." But it is certainly gaining in importance; 5+ years ago there was very little attention paid to transgender issues outside of the people who care the most about it.

One thing that is certain though, is that support for these issues is not uniform across the entire United States. Support for these issues tends to be highest among affluent, educated white suburban and urbanites who vote for Democrats. Thus, it is part of the larger "culture war" that goes on in America between those people and their opposites on the other side of the aisle (e.g. Republicans from "the real America").

That "culture war" is, unfortunately, rather important, as it explains a lot of recent dysfunction in US politics, one of the most important one being the insistence that everyone must be in one political tribe or another, as well as insistence on total fealty to every aspect of that tribe's agenda. If you are confused about how transgender pronouns work, you must not be a member of the left wing tribe in good standing, therefore you are potentially dangerous and need to have your moderator power taken away just in case you're not really going to decide these sorts of things the way people in our tribe are supposed to.

The right in America has the same dynamic going on right now; in their case, it's all about whether or not you support Donald Trump enough.

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Yes, but as a small part of the larger US culture wars

The push to use gender neutral pronouns, or to insist that people must use the pronouns that they are explicitly told to use or face ostracism and/or criminal penalty, is an extremely recent phenomenon. It's primarily a result of the broader LGBT movement successfully making gay marriage legal; now that the big agenda item for the L, G, and B people is complete, there is now greater focus on the issues of transgender people among activists and people who care about these issues.

It is hard to quantify exactly how "important" this particular push is, especially because there are multiple ways to say if and how something is "important." But it is certainly gaining in importance; 5+ years ago there was very little attention paid to transgender issues outside of the people who care the most about it.

One thing that is certain though, is that support for these issues is not uniform across the entire United States. Support for these issues tends to be highest among affluent, educated white suburban and urbanites who vote for Democrats. Thus, it is part of the larger "culture war" that goes on in America between those people and their opposites on the other side of the aisle (e.g. Republicans from "the real America").

That "culture war" is, unfortunately, rather important, as it explains a lot of recent dysfunction in US politics, one of the most important one being the insistence that everyone must be in one political tribe or another, as well as insistence on total fealty to every aspect of that tribe's agenda. If you are confused about how transgender pronouns work, you must not be a member of the left wing tribe in good standing, therefore you are potentially dangerous and need to have your moderator power taken away just in case you're not really going to decide these sorts of things the way people in our tribe are supposed to.

The right in America has the same dynamic going on right now; in their case, it's all about whether or not you support Donald Trump enough.

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