Stanford University adds 'American' to its list of 'harmful language'
7 other times institutions attempted to strip words, pronouns from English lexicon
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.”
