[lg policy] First-ever court-ordered pronoun?

[Baron, Dennis E]

There’s a new post on the Web of Language:

First-ever court-ordered pronoun?

In what could be the first-ever case of a court-ordered pronoun, a U.S. Army tribunal has ordered prison officials to use a feminine pronoun when referring to Chelsea Manning, who has changed their gender identity from male to female. . . . In plain English, the Army doesn’t have to call her Chelsea, but it does have to call her ‘she.'

Read the full post on the Web of Language: https://illinois.edu/blog/view/25



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