DISPATCHES FROM WEIMAR AMERICA: University of Colorado: Assume Everyone Is Trans.

Colorado’s top public university says that people should address new acquaintances as transgender until otherwise instructed and that ignoring someone’s pronouns is “an act of violence.”

“Sometimes people just don’t want to share their pronouns and that’s fine,” says the University of Colorado Boulder’s “pronouns” guide. “Usually it’s safe to use they/them/theirs unless that person tells you otherwise.”

“It is never safe* to assume someone’s gender and living a life where people will naturally assume the correct pronouns for you is a privilege that not everyone experiences,” the guide says.

These are just some of the directions from University of Colorado Boulder’s Center for Inclusion and Social Change, which also claims that terms like “ze” and “zir” are legitimate ways to refer to people. Boulder is the flagship University of Colorado campus and also the largest, with more than 36,000 students.

Earlier: The Return of Paganism. As G.K. Chesterton never actually wrote, “When a man ceases to believe in God, it’s not that he believes in nothing, it’s that he’ll believe in anything.”

* It sure isn’t, when the recently aborted “Trans Day of Vengeance” was “originally called the Trans Day of Visibility rally. However, the name change happened after the mass murder by a trans shooter in Nashville.” Speaking of whom, when do we get to see that shooter’s manifesto?