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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.”

The policy is billed by the board as a simple branding and communications policy. It came only months after Republican Gov. Kristi Noem sent a letter to the regents that railed against “liberal ideologies” on college campuses and called for the board to ban drag shows on campus and “remove all references to preferred pronouns in school materials,” among other things.

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[–] Garbanzo@lemmy.world 66 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

I'd comply and remove that info from the signature. I'd just start every email with:

Hello,

Thanks for reading my email. In case we're not already familiar, my pronouns are he/him and I'm affiliated with...

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 81 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

nah just remove all pronouns

Smith,

Name Emma Jones and sophomore Thursday General Physics Class. Writing because in class yesterday mentioned having open positions research lab. found summary of project very interesting, would like learn and talk joining lab. Time in weeks could meet?

Thank time and look forward hearing soon

Best regards,

Emma

[–] Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone 33 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I love this. It screams "Why use lot word when few word do trick."

[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 25 points 2 years ago

Yeah no pronouns in emails ever again. That's way more fun lol

[–] bobzilla@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

Just replace the pronouns.

"Hi. Steve was wondering if Steve could go ahead and start Steve's next project since Steve's current project is now in review? Steve would be working with Kevin on Steve's next project and Steve knows that Kevin is wrapping up Kevin's project this week so Steve and Kevin could start next week"

Doesn't that sound so much more professional? 🙄

[–] maniel@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Perfectly readable, I'd bet there are some languages where "I'm" is implied

[–] Railcar8095@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

I don't know any were the "I'm" is implied, but the "I" is, for example Spanish, because the verb has that info. For example, the present form of "to eat", "comer" I/yo *como You(singular)/tú *comes he/she/they(singular)él/ella/Ud. *come we/nosotros *comemos you(plural) vosotros *coméis they(plural) ellos/ellas/Uds. *comen

As with the verb alone you know the subject, you can safely ignore it and say, for instance "como" (eat) and have the same meaning as "yo como" (I eat).

[–] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago
[–] prole@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

Not perfectly readable because you can't tell who they're referring to. Someone mentioned something in class, that's all we know.

[–] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago

This is the way.

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 12 points 2 years ago

I think I would go with something like this:

I am female but university policy forbids me to tell you my pronouns. I have a Native American ancestry but university policy forbids me to tell you if I have a tribal affiliation.

Probably in extra-large bold text.

[–] Ballistic_86@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Hello,

Thanks for reading my email. As a large language model….

Haha