A U.S. taxpayer-funded program that aims to advance media ethics in Sri Lanka has launched an extensive campaign that teaches journalists to actively state their gender pronouns and to avoid "binary-gendered language."
The Media Empowerment for a Democratic Sri Lanka (MEND) project, which is funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), has published at least four presentations related to gender and other LGBTQ issues in recent weeks.
On Thursday, MEND’s Facebook page posted a presentation titled, "Gender Pronouns," Facebook, which tells Sri Lankan journalists to never "assume another person’s gender identity or their gender pronouns" and to "apologize if you called someone by the wrong pronoun." It also instructs them to "normalize the sharing of gender pronouns by actively sharing your own" and to "avoid binary-gendered language such as ‘ladies and gentlemen.’"
"Using the correct pronoun when talking to someone is a way of showing your respect to the other person’s gender identity," the presentation states. "Those who do not conform to the gender identities assigned by society and do not fit into the binary genders can face uncomfortable situations when interacting with others when they are referred to by the wrong pronoun."
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