Sarah Huckabee Sanders signs ban on inclusive language

Arkansas’ Republican governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders has signed an executive order banning inclusive language in state documents. The executive order bans 12 terms she deems “woke” or “anti-women” from being used in “official government business” and states that “government should celebrate gender distinctions between men and women – not erase them”. According to the hard-right governor, who served as the White House press secretary under Donald Trump, gender-neutral terms that are inclusive of trans and non-binary people such as ‘pregnant people’ and ‘chestfeeding’ are “exclusionary and sexist”. However, a 2019...