Using ‘he/him,’ ‘she/her’ in emails got 2 dorm directors fired at small New York Christian college

Posted on AllSides May 22nd, 2023
From The Left
Malcolm Davon Smith via 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 in line with a new policy for email formats implemented in September. Both refused and were fired.

“My name is Shua. It’s an unusual name. And it ends with a vowel, ‘a,’ that is traditionally feminine in many languages,”...

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https://apnews.com/article/houghton-university-gender-pronouns-firings-03bdb3f62a95ac2921c31202d6520ae4

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