Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, R-Ark., is setting the record straight on femininity in Arkansas , introducing an executive order to mandate the use of gender-specific terms when describing women and "prohibit the use of woke, anti-women words for official state government business."
"The science is clear and real; There are things only women can do, like perform the miracle of birth," Sanders wrote in the executive order shared first with Fox News Digital. "Government should reject language that ignores, undermines, and erases women; Government should celebrate gender distinctions between men and women – not erase them."
Sanders' order comes as states, workplaces and schools around the country are pushing the use of what they refer to as "culturally conscious" or "inclusive" language – initiatives that commonly attempt to remove femininity from terms used to describe women.
In the spring, the Arkansas Department of Health issued a memo on drinking water that described how small per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) can have negative effects on "pregnant people." Sanders' new order will require the state to use the terms "pregnant women" or "pregnant mom" when describing someone who is expecting a child.
The governor wrote that rather than refer to females as a "menstruating person" or "menstruating people," to use the terms "woman" or "women."
Rather than "birthing person," use "birth mom," and rather than "chestfeeding," use "breastfeeding."
And rather than "laboring person," use "birth mom," and "woman" instead of "birth-giver."
SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS TROLLS BUD LIGHT WITH KOOZIE FOR ‘REAL WOMEN’
Sanders has firmly stood on the side of opposition to removing femininity from terms referring to women. As the first woman to serve as Arkansas governor, Sanders has slammed President Biden as "the first man to surrender his presidency to a woke mob that can’t tell you what a woman is."
Amid a nationwide trend to replace gender-specific terms, the city of Portland recently urged city staff members to adopt a more "culturally conscious" vocabulary that included not using words such as "women," "Caucasian" or "citizen."
An elementary school in Vermont was criticized for telling parents it would be removing "male" and "female" language from its fifth-grade science lessons covering the human body and reproduction, while a Missouri school district decided to use "they/them" pronouns in math class to help kids' "mathematical identities."
In several other cases, the "inclusive" push stretches beyond gender to removing religious terms from vocabulary.
Michigan State University released an "inclusive" language guide for its students that suggested "in winter and spring, avoid references to majority religious imagery and language, such as the word ‘merry’ or ‘Christmas trees,’ ‘wreaths,’ ‘holly,’ ‘bells,’ ‘gifts,’ ‘reindeer,’ ‘bunnies,’ ‘eggs’ and ‘chicks,’" the style guide suggested. "Use terms like ‘wishing you a wonderful winter/spring break’ or ‘best wishes for the new year.’"
Sanders remains a vocal critic of allowing biological men to compete in women's sports, writing in May that "strong, conservative governors will never allow women’s sports to be destroyed by a woke mob that can’t even tell you what a woman is."
Love her! I'm amazed that this kind of common sense science is so edgy these days.
Right!? Sign of the times.
Gov Sarah Huckabee Sanders seems to be the trend setter now. She passed a law recently requiring Chinese to sell any farmland owned in her state.
ahhh nice to see a real governor.......
Technically this is censorship. Is this different than the lefts way of doing things. We shouldn’t approve of dictators just because we agree with them. But what do I know…. I just want government to stay as much as possible out of our lives….
Agreed about having to make common sense laws. But, nothing is common sense these days. How do we push back against this virus?
Non compliance…. On a massive scale. That includes no tax money for them.
This is a fucking stupid use of government. Let's get the corporate rule and swamp drained instead. This if so fucking stupid and it angers me that MAGA's fall for this DeSantis made crap.
We are against authoritarianism, no matter who it's from.
Yeah this helps, but gov has no business in anyone's business.
Sarah is a champion for women!
You mean there are observable and demonstrable differences between the sexes? Who knew?
She's also kicking China out of land ownership. This is getting good...
Bravo Sarah. Wish she had insisted on properly using "sex" over the retarded "gender". Destruction of the language is straight from the Marxist playbook -- if your language is muddled, so is your thinking.
Good.
We need more Senators like her. Born to fight like her Dad.
She's turning the tables on institutions that eliminated male words like "mankind" and replaced "mailman" with "letter carrier" etc.
Thank you!! it really bothers me how stupid the renaming has gotten. Time to put a stop to it. The children are getting very confused about all this crap.
Hahaha... wish she would have included 'Easter worshipers' as a zing to one certain carpetbagging former Arkansan.
True. But looks as if it must be done. Better than a civil war.