by Muskogee Politico - January 07, 2021 at 08:25PM
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Oklahoma Democrats fail in effort to remove gender language from House Rules
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by Ray Carter - Director, Center for Independent Journalism
(January 5, 2021) Democratic members of the Oklahoma House of Representatives called for elimination of gender-specific language in the House’s operating rules during that chamber’s organizational meeting on Tuesday.
Rep. Mauree Turner, D-Oklahoma City, authored the gender-language amendment to House Resolution 1001, saying it is part of an effort to make Oklahoma “an equitable” and “truly representative” state.
Turner’s amendment called for “removing all gender-based pronouns or gender-based references wherever those references appear in the House Rules and replacing or substituting those references with gender-neutral language.”
Turner is the first Muslim elected to the Oklahoma Legislature and self-describes as “gender non-conforming.”
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