Fri Sep 24, 2021 – 3:01 pm EDT
PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania (LifeSiteNews) — A Pennsylvania university has warned it may mete out punishments for students who refer to “transgender” classmates by their legal names or biologically accurate pronouns, National Review reported Thursday.
In a September 13 email, the Office of Equity and Inclusion at Point Park University (PPU) in Pittsburgh sent an email informing new and returning Fall 2021 students about the institution’s “Misgendering, Pronoun Misuse, and Deadnaming Policy.”
Originally obtained by Campus Reform, the email warned Point Park students that “action could be taken” against them if they commit any of a variety of “microaggressions” or other alleged offenses against transgender students.
The email failed to address the concerns of those who may feel the university’s policies violate their right to free speech or undermine their convictions that gender differences are biological and immutable.
“The Office of Equity and Inclusion would like to welcome in the 2021-2022 academic year with information on current policies that exist through our office and information regarding the Preferred Name Policy, instances of misgendering, pronoun misuse, and deadnaming (the use of a person’s legal ‘dead’ name instead of using the person’s
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