US city abolishes gendered language to be more ‘inclusive’

The left-wing Mayor of the US city of Portland, Oregon, has announced the removal of gendered language from the city’s charter in a bid to become more inclusive.

The move will see terms including ‘she’, ‘he’, ‘herself’ and ‘himself’ purged from the progressive city’s founding document.

It follows similar action by the cities of Philadelphia, Tulsa and Oklahoma, all of which wiped gendered references from their charters last year.

Berkeley, California has also scrapped words such as manhole, brother and policeman from its law books.

In 2017, Oregon became the first state to allow residents to list their gender as ‘not specified’ when applying for driver’s licenses, learner’s permits and identity cards, Fox News reported.

Under that rule, the cards of those who select the ‘not specified’ option will be marked with an X, rather than an M or F to indicate their gender.