Using he/him, she/her in emails got 2 dorm directors fired at small New York Christian college – Twin Cities twincities.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from twincities.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Houghton University in western New York said the directors refusal to remove the pronouns violated institutional policy, according to dismissal letters shared online.
Houghton University wanted them to drop the identifiers in line with a new policy for email formats implemented in September. Both refused, and they were fired.
NEW YORK (AP) Shua Wilmot and Raegan Zelaya, two former dorm directors at a small Christian university in western New York, acknowledge their names are unconventional, which explains why they attached gender identities to their work email signatures. Wilmot uses “he/him.” Zelaya goes by “she/her.” Their former employer, Houghton University, wanted them to drop the identifiers […]