
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...