HHS panders to the pronoun junkies

 National Review:

Last June, when Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary Xavier Becerra appeared before the Senate Finance Committee to testify on the Biden administration’s fiscal 2022 budget, one brief interchange stood out: Toward the end of the hearing, Oklahoma GOP senator James Lankford confronted Becerra on an odd shift in the White House budget proposal’s language. “I noticed you changed a term in your budget work,” Lankford said. “You shifted, in places, from using the term ‘mother’ to ‘birthing people.’ Can you help me get a good definition of ‘birthing people’?”

Becerra demurred. “Well, I’ll check on the language there, but I think if we’re talking about those who give birth, I think we’re talking about, uh . . . I don’t know how else to explain it to you.” The removal of the term “mother,” the HHS secretary maintained, “simply reflects the work that’s being done.”

Becerra neglected to discuss the specific nature of that work. But internal documents obtained by National Review confirm that the administration’s gender-neutral language coincides with a coordinated effort at HHS to implement a new set of rules and standards regarding “equity” and “gender-inclusive correspondence.” The guidance, issued last year, does not specifically cover “birthing people” but does prescribe the use of a number of other gender-neutral terms, often valuing pronoun sensitivity over clarity in official correspondence.

This project, ironically, was hinted at as part of the HHS Plain Writing Act Compliance Report, which is released every April and details the agency’s efforts to train employees in “clear Government communication that the public can understand and use” in its “letters, publications, forms, notices and instructions,” as outlined by the Plain Writing Act of 2010. In 2021, the HHS report introduced “a New Focus section on Promoting Equity,” which “focuses on Executive Order (EO) 13985, Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government” — via “the use of plainly written and culturally sensitive, unbiased information.” EO 13985, which was the first executive order that President Biden signed, specifically promised to “embed equity principles, policies, and approaches across the Federal Government.”
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They are using the term "equity" to mask their pander to those who do not want to use normal pronouns in describing themselves.  Liberalism has become a way of distracting from the normal.