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Captiongate: How a Single Zoom Call Propelled Canada's Greens Into Pronoun Meltdown

Kay, Jonathan
http://quillette.com/blog/2022/09/15/the-canadian-green-partys-interim-leader-was/

Publisher:  Quillette
Date Written:  15/09/2022
Year Published:  2022  
Resource Type:  Article

Amita Kuttner claimed that online text reading 'she' instead of 'they' illustrated a 'system of oppression.' Now the party's president has resigned, and the movement is in chaos.

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Amita Kuttner claimed that online text reading 'she' instead of 'they' illustrated a 'system of oppression.' Now the party's president has resigned, and the movement is in chaos.

Kuttner self-describes as non-binary, transgender, and pansexual. When asked, "What are your preferred pronouns?" in a 2019 interview, the one-time astrophysicist replied, "they/them," but then elaborated as follows: "When I write my pronouns, I sometimes write all of them: they/them, she/her, he/him, because I don't care. There will be days where I'm not always even aware of what my gender is, and I will notice it based on how someone addresses me and whether I respond. I was in choir for many years, and they'd say, "women sing now," "men sing now." And I would find myself starting with one or the other group, even though I was obviously supposed to sing soprano. I’d be like, "Oh, I guess I'm feeling that today."

And yet, despite the fact Kuttner apparently can't always figure out "what my gender is," and claims not to "care" in any case, the interim leader felt the need to issue a lengthy statement on September 6th [2022] detailing the allegedly devastating emotional effects that ensued when the pronoun descriptor "she/elle" appeared in the electronic caption that sat alongside Kuttner's name during a Green Party of Canada Zoom call, instead of the Kuttner-approved "they/he/ille." Indeed, Kuttner described the ordeal as evidence that the Greens were infected by a "system of oppression."

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