A new South Dakota policy to stop the use of gender pronouns by public university faculty and staff in official correspondence is also keeping Native American employees from listing their tribal affiliations in a state with a long and violent history of conflict with tribes.
Two University of South Dakota faculty members, Megan Red Shirt-Shaw and her husband, John Little, have long included their gender pronouns and tribal affiliations in their work email signature blocks. But both received written warnings from the university in March that doing so violated a policy adopted in December by the South Dakota Board of Regents.
“I was told that I had 5 days to remove my tribal affiliation and pronouns,” Little said in an email to The Associated Press. “I believe the exact wording was that I had ‘5 days to correct the behavior.’ If my tribal affiliation and pronouns were not removed after the 5 days, then administrators would meet and make a decision whether I would be suspended (with or without pay) and/or immediately terminated.”ersity employee emails
Boy, South Dakota really challenging Tennessee and Texas for shittiest State in the Union eh? Haven’t even heard about Florida in months because of these bozos.
Florida just banned lab grown meat and removed climate change targets from their books. So, the usual for them.
Everybody loves to hate Florida but over in Louisiana we quietly institutionalized creationism in public schools and we’re working hard to criminalize pregnancy from anything other than immaculate conception.
We sold our grand-childrens’s souls to oil and gas like a half-century ago. Y’all motherfuckers don’t even know political corruption yet ;)
Mississippi is still worse than all of them, but it’s not for lack of all of them trying 😮💨