The following comes from a November 10 SDSU Daily Aztec article by Maria Del Carmen Huerta:
San Diego State will not recognize a homecoming king or queen this year. Instead, the honorees will be referred to as “royals,” a gender-neutral term.
During the application process, candidates were allowed to select gender-neutral pronouns to identify themselves.
These gender-inclusive pronouns aim to dispel the common gender binary of categorizing people as solely masculine or feminine.
Gender neutrality in the homecoming application is a step in the right direction, SDSU Women’s Resource Center Coordinator Jessica Nare said.
“We are lucky to be on a campus that is really diverse, and so I think having systems in place that reflect the students on campus is a really positive thing,” Nare said. “The reality is we don’t live in a gender-binary system and so really recognizing that in a public way is really important and exciting.”
She said the gender-neutral option is another step toward creating safe and brave spaces on campus where everyone will feel welcome.
This progressive shift can be seen on other campuses across the nation, including Harvard University and University of Vermont, where gender-neutral pronouns are offered in the general admission process.
” SDSU Women’s Resource Center Coordinator”
Hmmm – Is there a Men’s Resource Center, Coordinator… ?
The alleged ‘diversity’ of Academentia does not permit for Men to speak, let alone develop interest / advocacy groups of similar nature, save when confessing in abject shame for their heteor-patriarchal micro – aggressive oppression of – everybody else.
Of course the California Commission 4 Woymn just Celebrated 50 years of tax subsidized Misandry, and ultimately Mysogony as well – and it remains a Governmentally Punishable offense to even Advocate for an Equal Commission for the Male (49%) minority.
SEE FRC: “Equality Control: WH Throws Weight behind Radical Bill
The rest of the country may have gotten the message from Houston — but obviously, President Obama did not. A week after his sexual extremism took a drubbing at the ballot box (62-38%), the White House is back at it, pushing an agenda even more radical than Mayor Annise Parker’s bathroom ordinance!
The same day the president was featured on a homosexual activist magazine as the “Ally of the Year” (more like seven years), Obama seemed determined to prove it — announcing his support for the so-called Equality Act…
– dramatically alter the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to force Americans conformity on homosexuality and transgenderism.
This is sick! Poor kids. Please say special prayers for our youth in the secular, they need our prayers. Just like the lay faithful having to live by their immoral rules, we need to pray and fast. Its our cross and duty.
This action is very IGNORANT!! And totally UNNECESSARY!! Very DESTRUCTIVE to the well-being of our country! I am SO SORRY for all the lost, confused, “genderless-brainwashed” souls out there!! It is so UNNECESSARY!! Yes– to be a MAN or a WOMAN, is a fundamental gift of God, and God’s Mother Nature!! Every child must grow to his or her full potential, as a MAN or WOMAN!! College students really need competent LEADERSHIP, to help them grow up properly, and become GOOD CITIZENS of our country!!
I think the term “God’s Mother Nature” could be taken two ways.
Anonymous, God created ALL things– to include Nature! God gave you a DEFINITE mother and father, didn’t He, when He created you– when you were even just a tiny babe, conceived in your mother’s womb! And He gave you a DEFINITE gender, as a Male or Female! The Natural Law comes straight from God’s Mother Nature! No one is “GENDERLESS!” That is CRAZY, DESTRUCTIVE, and UNTRUE!!
I think the term Mother Nature is idolatrous and to say God’s Mother Nature could be misconstrued as God’s Mother, “Nature”. See the point, now.
God created me. Mother Nature did not create me. The Natural Law comes from God, not Mother Nature.
And you are right, no one is genderless. And the article does not say that anyone is. But not everyone is born with a definite gender. But that is not the point.
Anonymous, it is just ridiculous to say that I am making an ido of Nature, by using the everyday term, “Mother Nature!” We are limited here, in words, for these posts– hence, the shortened phrase, “God’s Mother nature!” Silly! Next– even Bruce Jenner had a most DEFINITE idea in mind, of the GENDER he desperately wanted to be!! But you know– everyone is born with a definite gender, and it must be written down, along with the baby’s name, and names of his/her parents– on the baby’s birth certificate!
Sorry, but the computer skipped, when I was trying to type a fast reply to Anonymous, above (we are given only a brief time, to type posts, now!) I meant to say that I was certainly NOT making an IDOL— of Mother Nature!
I did not accuse you of making an idol of Nature. I said you chose your word’s poorly. However, they are your words. You choose them. You use them. They are yours.
And there are many people (1 of 100) who are born with genital abnormalities, some which make the gender ambiguous. It doesn’t make them any less of a person. It doesn’t make them “children of a lesser God.” It isn’t caused by their sin or their parents’ sin. It isn’t “Mother Nature” or God making a mistake.
You can accept this without violating the Catholic Faith or betraying Biblical belief.
Some gender theories are incompatible with the Catholic Faith. But the Catholic Faith does not deny reality.
OMG the rant coming from some people.
First of all, the Blessed Mother, the exemplar without equal, born without sin. Her own son, was genetically born without a human male Y chromosome.
Get a clue. God doesn’t particularly care about chromosomes or gender or anything else you might consider essential to your faith. THAT is the point of the Incarnation!!
YFC– So you think God does not care about gender? Well, I think everyone knows, He gave to each one of us, a gender, for very good reasons! That is part of being human! So– what in the world is wrong with gender, YFC? Everyone else thinks it is just fine! Christ was born a Jewish male. I once heard of a crazy lady, who belonged to a club that tried to prove Jesus was not a Jew, nor a male!! What in the world is wrong with either being a Jew– OR a male??
YFC– Why in the world do you think that Jesus “did not have a Y chromosome?” Christ was born as a baby boy, by the power of the Holy Spirit, to the Blessed Virgin Mary. A miracle! God can work all the miracles He wants, at any time, in history! Jesus was born as a man like all other men, and shared all our joys and sorrows, on Earth. Yet, He was pure, and free of sin! And he died on a Cross, for our Salvation! Yes, Christ was one of us, yet the Son of God, Most High! And I am sure His poor, humble body, had the Y chromosome, miraculously, YFC!!
Ok Linda, you can stop putting words in my mouth. That is a very childish tactic, you know. Immature. Babyish.
I never said there was anything “wrong” with gender or with being male. Never said it. Stop making it up.
So you think Jesus had a Y chromosome? Who’s genes were on that chromosome? Which genetic variations did it possess and why? How do you KNOW he had a Y chromosome? Is that a de fide element of our faith, to believe he had a Y chromosome?
“How do you KNOW he had a Y chromosome? I” because Christ was born male YFC, much to your dismay I am sure….
Linda Maria, we could add to this conversation the reality of “intersex” human beings, something not often seen, but not all that rare either. To be of one gender or another, one must meet a number of criteria: chromosomes, internal and external genitalia, and two or three other characteristics. Not all people are born boy or girl and many have had “corrective” surgery while new-bornes, with parents not all making the right choice. Today, for good or not, gender has become a more complex issue, based on new research and learning. Not as simple as when we grew up.
To Bob One, and others– It is true that there are a great many problems and abnormalities, that can occur, at birth. Yes, all babies must be given equal love and tender care! But also in a civilization, there needs to be an establishment of a norm! A norm, so that civilization functions well! Otherwise, you have chaos! Growing children need to have an excellent, accurate, healthy norm given to them, not something weird, that throws them off-balance! Teachers and parents are responsible to help children to grow up in a normal and healthy way!
To Bob One, and others— You know, every single person in this whole world, has some sort of “abnormality!” Or something they consider “strange” and are not proud of, for some reason! Too fat, too skinny, freckles, acne, or a nose they think is somehow “ugly!” America is far too focused on money, status, ego, physical looks, etc. etc. Instead– our country should simply be focused on GOOD VALUES, with daily practice of Christian virtue! First, we are a HUMAN BEING!! NOT a person with a big nose, fat tummy, freckles, or “LGBT,” etc.!! And WHO CARES, after that?? LOVE EVERYONE!!
Its not for good Bob One but I am not surprised you cannot see that.
Canisius, there you go again! I only raised the issue. I think the whole question of gender, as it is discussed in today’s context, is a bunch of baloney, but that wasn’t the point. Talk to young college kids. They are being trained differently from the way we were taught. To open a meeting with ” good morning ladies and gentlemen” is now a “micro-aggression” against trans-gendered people in their view. Your gender can now be different than you sex, for gosh sake. It’s weird. But, we do need to consider it all if we are to bring people to God, don’t you think?.
Bob One, even those who are born with genital deformities eventually have to decide whether to become fully a man or a woman in order to fit into a society where the majority of people are either a man or a woman.. The anarchist gender benders are taking the fun out of everything. Should we all pretend we only have one arm or one leg just because some people were born that way or lost theirs, or should we try to help them adjust to a two arm, two legged world of humans in the best way they can whether our denying we have all four limbs? The sane person chooses the latter, not pretend that everyone has lost a limb. There are other contests that people with certain deformities can enter without taking away the rights of those who do not have…
This is the whole point. People want to fit into society as they are. They don’t want to have to deny who they are. Why can’t they just be who they are? That is why they universities are having these issues. Why can’t they be the way God make them? Living a lie is not holy.
No one is saying there are more than two biological sexes. Gender is not the same thing. Some gender theories are incompatible with the Faith. But it is not incompatible to be intersex. It is a biological condition with no more moral implication that a person born with spina bifida or displaced hips.
Actually, Anne T., people with “genital deformities” do NOT have to decide anything. It is the outside world, who cannot stomach the fact that some people are born differently than the “average”, that pressures those individuals into taking sides with their gender, usually before they can even talk or walk. Most of the time, that decision happens just after childbirth, “for the good of the child”, a decision thrust upon the infant by adults who have never faced the situation themselves, who desperately want to have an “average” child. And you know what? Almost every single one of those children face a lifetime of therapy dealing with the fact that they were mutilated in infancy by those who were trying to do the best thing for…
YFC, if you have ever read any of my past postings, you should know that I have always said that corrections made on the bodies of such people should be done by them as adults. I agree with you that many children have had there sex changed by parents, it did not turn out well and the adult child had many problems later. My point is that such people should have facilities such as locked unisex restrooms where they will have the privacy needed and others, especially women, will have there privacy too.
Also, it has gone too far the other way. Taking away the rights of boys and girls to have kings and queens at football games just because some people have medical problems, and as you call it are intersexed, is not right either. People who have medical deformities have other contests, etc. they can entered and in which they can compete and win.
Could it be that society’s understanding of the relation between the genders evolves over time?. Remember, a century ago women could not not vote in most public elections in the US. The sufregetes eventually won the day.
If by “understanding” you mean “perception” then maybe it does “evolve”.
Like, who knows. It’s all relative. You might perceive it as good and someone else as bad. Nothing is ever wrong!
Peace out, man…er…woman…uh…dude–yeah…DUDE!
So if someone else thinks nothing is bad and everything is relative and it is all right to kill you and does, how can the rest of us judge him? See how what you say is not logical. Some things just ARE wrong. What you are preaching is moral relativism, and it cannot work as it is just moral anarchy.
The problem is not political, such as voting in elections! It has to do with refusal to face a very simple truth– that we are all born with a gender! And I suppose many “LGBT’s” are unhappy with their genders, and also, are not able to function as normal heterosexuals– so, they are angry, and nonsensical, demanding an insane, unnatural, “unisex” society– which completely denies the reality of Mother Nature! Everyone is naturally born with a gender, even if it is a gender they do not like! Parents, caregivers, and preschool teachers, all have a duty, to teach children their gender, and help them to understand what it is, in Nature!
Since the “LGBT’s” are hurt– and since it is true that America DOES focus too much on egoism, looks, and poor values– would it be better, to ABOLISH such things as “Homecoming King and Queen,” or Beauty Contests?? When I was young, I and many others, at times felt left out, because we were more serious students in school, achievers, and NOT always among those born with outstanding good looks, who sort of won popularity and beauty contests!! But we sat by, achieved in school, tried to grow up and become mature– and didn’t pay any attention to silly football games, and Homecoming, etc.!!