Universities across America have replaced the already genderless term “alumni” with “alumnx,” in what is therefore a totally pointless move.
For some odd reason, many colleges have included the term “alumnx” on their websites, in some odd attempt to be more inclusive. It comes after words like “Latinx,” a non-gendered version of “Latino” and “Latina” was popularised by those on the left in order to placate non-binary and transgendered Latinos.
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Twitter user Wesley Yang first pointed out that that Rutgers had changed to “alumnx” on their website, and Jordan Lancaster, a freelance journalist, then spotted that many other universities had followed suit. People online were quick to ridicule the pointless decision:
Alumnx pic.twitter.com/gntcijXlAU
— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) December 8, 2019
seize the endowments pic.twitter.com/ubhMeFqzqM
— Jordan Lancaster (@jordylancaster) December 8, 2019
exactly. this is fully an issue that only matters to people extremely in the university bubble lol
— Jordan Lancaster (@jordylancaster) December 8, 2019
XFL needs recognition
— Nate Baker (@NateDBaker) December 8, 2019
https://twitter.com/Bastilosaur/status/1203712594755903488
This is what we're doing now? Adding x's to every word? Latinx, Alumnx, and Womxn? https://t.co/B7t9BnCJwM
— Drew (@AOCummies) December 9, 2019
'Alumnx'—the absolute state of this!
I also strongly suspect that, while almost all of the linguists in this department will be radical descriptivists about most aspects of language, they suddenly become the most extreme prescriptivists when it comes to (trans)gendered language. pic.twitter.com/zgwEvYOD0b
— The Fudgelist (@thefudgelist) December 8, 2019
wow… we are seeing it happen in real time. universities are now changing the genderless word "Alumni" to another genderless(and newly made up) word "Alumnx".. how the fuck do you even pronounce that? https://t.co/Kn5MeobOyz pic.twitter.com/tV7qMyx4KN
— $onny (@blkck) December 9, 2019
Unlike “Latino,” the term “alumni” is already completely non-gendered. It is the gender-neutral plural form of the Latin “alumnus,” meaning “student.” Changing it to “alumnx” therefore is completely pointless, but that hasn’t stopped colleges from implementing the change.
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Some of the universities that use the term include the University of California-San Diego, Syracuse University, the University of Michigan and Loyola University of Maryland, although many of these seem to use both “alumni” and “alumnx” interchangeably. For example, the text of Loyola’s “LGBTQ services website” reads:
Welcome to Loyola’s LGBTQ+ Alumnx page! As Loyola starts to expand LGBTQ+ visibility, we are looking to maintain an active database of a/sexuality and a/gender diverse alumni to support, encourage, and connect current students with alumni of Loyola University Maryland.
The University of Michigan for some reason includes the feminine “alumna” as well on the “alumnx” website for their program on “Intergroup Relations.” It should come as no surprise that the left do not know how to implement their own language rules, despite them wishing to force them upon the rest of us.
