A California diversity, equity, and inclusion director alleged that she was ousted from her position for refusing to use pronouns and gender-neutral language.
Tabia Lee told Fox News Digital that in the early stages of her career in the ‘80s and ’90s, she promoted the use of pronouns to accommodate transgender people. However, her experience as a DEI director spiraled into a matter of compulsion as opposed to fostering support for people with different viewpoints.
Lee said she would facilitate learning groups to talk about pronouns because “people couldn’t see each other.”Â
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“This became not something that was being done to support students or to support others, to make welcoming spaces for others. But a mandate that was being made by certain people working from particular ideological perspectives, and it wasn’t being done to help people,” Lee said.
“And actually many of my friends who are trans activists and non-binary people actually said all of this makes me feel uncomfortable because I’m constantly being demanded to state my pronouns,” she continued.Â
Lee said that she was “accused of not being gender inclusive for not using the terms Latinx and Philippinx.”
“I shared with folks that in my background of teaching in ten years in largely Spanish-speaking communities, I had never heard that term,” Lee said. “And the people I worked with, the working-class people I worked with, I didn’t originate with them from what I could tell.”
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“At the beginning of my career, I was very supportive of multiple things. But I’ve seen how they played out in the lives of students and beyond,” she said.
Lee’s backlash began shortly after she started her position at De Anza Community College in August 2021, when she said her colleagues were accusing her of “Whitesplaining” and supporting White supremacy.Â
Lee, an African-American woman,…
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