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Speaker recounts nursing students told to avoid 'she/her' pronouns; criticizes leadership remark as 'most racist'

January 25, 2025 | The Michelle Tanner Podcast, Citizen Journalism , 2024 -2025 Utah Citizen Journalism, Elections, Utah



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Speaker recounts nursing students told to avoid 'she/her' pronouns; criticizes leadership remark as 'most racist'
A speaker in the meeting transcript said nursing students had been told to avoid using "she" and "her" to describe mothers giving birth until the nursing student knew how the person identified, and recounted a conversation with university nursing leadership that the speaker called "the most racist thing I have ever heard in my entire life."

The speaker, identified in the transcript only as "Commenter," said they met with nursing leadership after students reported being told to omit gendered pronouns in patient emails and that the leadership member used a metaphor about race and access: "as white people, we can reach up and grab the fruit, and sometimes we have to stack some boxes so that people of color can reach up and grab the fruit too." The Commenter responded, "that is the most racist thing I have ever heard in my entire life."

The transcript excerpt does not identify the university by name, does not show any formal action taken by the meeting body, and does not record responses from nursing leadership in the meeting record. The remarks in the transcript are a first-person account of conversations about nursing training, pronoun guidance and implicit-bias discussions.

The speaker framed the issue as both a classroom-training concern and a matter of how diversity and bias conversations are being presented to students. No statutes, policies, or formal university guidance were cited in the excerpt, and the transcript does not show the meeting body taking direction or making a decision about the matter.

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