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2.Stanford University orders faculty to use gender-specific pronouns

In 2016, the elite California university faced controversy after it ordered faculty at a computer science workshop to use "they" and "their/them" as a singular pronoun.

With the stated goal of creating an “inclusive community,” the guidelines compiled by professor Cynthia Bailey Lee pushed for the revised pronoun use as a “neutral alternative” that works “better than the awkward 'he or she' construction because it also includes genderqueer and nonbinary.”

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