A Republican Ohio state House representative is working to deliver on the mandate handed to her majority by voters last week and pushing for an end to the suffocating “wokeness” that plagues higher education in the Buckeye State by introducing a bill to ban public colleges from asking would-be students to list their preferred pronouns on applications, the Columbus Dispatch reports.
“With the funding of public education, I just feel that there should be no bias involved in that. I just felt that being able to eliminate the pronouns really took away any bias off of somebody’s application whether it be for employment or for acceptance at the college,” said Representative Gail Pavliga, who apparently believes that those who select “they/them” or some other non-binary pronoun secretly boosts them with preferential consideration in the application process.
Thirteen of Ohio’s public universities use a platform called the Common App, which allows admissions staffs to make adjustments to individual questions and add their own to an applicant’s bid to be accepted to multiple institutions. A few of these colleges have added their own questions about sexuality and gender identity to their process. Bowling Green State University – site of an infamous, yet fictional massacre – and the University of Akron made these questions optional.