Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed an executive order to ban woke and anti-women language in all official state documents. She stressed that it is essential to "reject language that ignores, undermines and erases women" in the face of the free speech restrictions that the left wants to impose.
"They use meaningless words to erase women and girls and, more importantly, to erase our voices and our experiences. Today we oppose the nonsense of the woke. What frankly began as a fad among some graduate students has trickled into businesses, the healthcare industry and, increasingly, state government. It's degrading to women and it has to stop," the Arkansas governor said shortly before signing the order. "In a moment, I will sign an executive order banning all kinds of ridiculous words in state government documents."
The Left is using nonsense words like "pregnant people" to erase women and girls - and more importantly, our voices and our experiences.
We just banned those words from Arkansas state government.
Biology is real. Chromosomes are real. Only women can give birth. pic.twitter.com/OwqgcmtmDm— Sarah Huckabee Sanders (@SarahHuckabee) October 19, 2023
Use ‘pregnant woman or mom’ instead of ‘pregnant person’
In the order, which was signed on Thursday, Huckabee Sanders gave some examples of terms that should be used in government documents and those that should not:
In official government documents, the following exclusionary and sexist terms shall be replaced with accurate, female-affirming alternatives:
Rather than "pregnant people" or "pregnant person," use "pregnant women" or "pregnant mom."
Rather than "chestfeeding," use "breastfeeding."
Rather than "body fed" or "person fed," use "breast fed."
Rather than "human milk," use "breast milk."
Rather than "birthing person," use "birth mom."
Rather than "laboring person," use "birth mom."
Rather than "menstruating person" or "menstruating people," use "woman" or "women."
Rather than "birth-giver," use "woman."
Rather than "womxn" or "womyn," use "woman."
‘Latinx’ banned
At the beginning of the year, Huckabee Sanders took a first step toward removing woke terminology from official Arkansas documents. Given the left's attempt to popularize the word “Latinx” in reference to Hispanics, the governor banned the term.
"Ethnically insensitive and pejorative language has no place in official government documents or government employee titles. The government has a responsibility to respect its citizens and use ethnically appropriate language, particularly when referring to ethnic minorities," said Huckabee Sanders.
