In a unanimous vote, the Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors has approved an update to the County Ordinance Code, removing gender-specific pronouns.
The ordinance code, which governs areas such as health and safety, administration, and land use, had not undergone a comprehensive review of its language since it was recodified in 1970. During this update, 841 instances of gender-specific pronouns were identified across more than 1,300 pages. Terms such as “he” were replaced with neutral descriptors like “the department head.”
“Contra Costa County is a community for all, and our policies should reflect our dedication to serving everyone,” said Board Chair and District 5 Supervisor Federal Glover. “By updating the County Ordinance Code, we’re delivering on our commitment to create meaningful change that benefits all residents.”
“We are changing our county ordinances to reflect today’s reality and removing gender references turns the page on a practice that has no place in county policy,” said District 1 Supervisor John Gioia, Chair of the Board’s Equity Committee.
“Removing gender-specific pronouns from the County Ordinance Code reflects Contra Costa County’s dedication to fairness and modernizing our practices,” said County Administrator Monica Nino. “This change ensures our policies and language honor the diversity of our community and promote dignity and respect for all.”
God created a man and a woman PERIOD!
You can put lipstick on a pig and call it Gertrude,
but It’s still a pig.
So we’ll use terms such as “the department head.” which is a very colonizer type term to me. Not really honoring the diversity of our community and promoting dignity and respect for all. Geez.
we spent money on this???? fools…..
The BOS didn’t get the memo. We’ve moved on from that stupidity.
More wokenesss! Get ready! I wish Trump could actually help us!
he will
What a fxxxing joke! Do they not have anything better to do with our taxpayers time and money?
So we are now a bunch of “its”. 😀
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BTW, which “reality” do these “supervisors” live in?
With all the problems in this county, state, country…..this is at the top of your agenda,,,,shallow people with shallow minds,,,,ridiculous!
It will always be a he/she world, you nutcrackers need to get over it already!
How ABOUT fruits and Nuts, That should cover it!
This is great. For many reasons. One being inclusivity, but also by removing gender specific variables it will make it even easier to apply laws to anyone looking at possibly using language semantics to get out of their wrongdoing.
then you “woke” up
Any judge, prosecutor or jury member who is not clear with he/she pronouns need not be in the position they’re in.
What is the cost of this change to the county’s taxpayers?
How many people will this help in the county?
Who will do all of this work and what oversites will be in place?
When is this project supposed to be completed and what consequences are in place if the work is not completed?
Yeah, still not good enough. This is attempting to mollify normal, correct people that are sick of woke without offending woke crazies. I read it as the county still being on the side of the crazies but trying to tamp down the negative attention that brings.
People are either male or female, no act of government camn change that.
More woke & cancel culture garbage …. all lib Newscum junk ….. guess it makes it look like they are doing something meaningful – but they’re not
Stupidvisors, every he and she of them.
Who do these people work for?
Supposedly us.
They “work” for themselves….
What a bunch of woke bullesh*t! Get rid of all these useless politicians and their crap! Nothing like wasting of our our tax dollars! Hey Federal, you listening???
newscum peoples
Terms such as “he” were replaced with neutral descriptors like “the department head.”
Neutral descriptors for neutored humans. Welcome to The Brave New World.
drain the damn swamp!
How quickly CoCo county cuts n runs from, woke pronoun drivel.
Ain’t that something, Trump gets elected and supervisors can’t backpedal fast enough.
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Do we really have a board of supervisors or a board of weather vanes, spinning around to whatever direction political winds are blowing?
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IF supervisors had any vertebral fortitude, gender specific
pronouns would have made it to county ordinances.
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How many man hours were wasted changing to woke pronouns ?
How many man hours will it take to change it all back ? ? ?
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Does this change in political winds, mean we’re going to be deprived of political propaganda, being painted on our streets?
stupid is as stupid does. ” Newsom proof”
California
What did he and she just say?
Respect for peoples gender, and old people get mad. Win/win.
“He/she” IS respect for gender. ALL of them.
It’s difficult to respect an ambiguous gender person with a proper salutation when the odds of guessing correctly are 50/50.
Perhaps the ambiguous gender people should take responsibility for their own feelings as opposed to blaming others.
So as more and more private companies are dumping (or greatly reducing) their DEI woke initiatives, our local Board of Stupidity is focusing on doubling down on the woke DEI agenda. Wow … Cool .. I am so glad to know that the money I pay for their salaries is being put to such good use.
We have crime. We have homelessness. We have a messed up local education system. And yet, they feel that the best use of their time is to remove the reference to he/she in our ordinance code will promote dignity and respectd for all … well I am offended they took the time to do this because I think that they have way more important stuff to do. Let’s be honest, how many people actually read the Ordinance Code.
Never understood the narcissism of an individual referring to themselves as a pronoun…
Of the BS that the county BOS cones up with, this reminds me of Mitchoff’s attempt to change the name of Kirker Pass Rd because one “historian” claimed that Kirker was a “slave owner.”
I think that went nowhere fast. Obviously the BOS, like any politician, prefers to attack what they “think” are problems, rather than acting in the REAL problems in the county.
Again, time to re-drain the swamp.
Oh Poppycock!
Foot soldiers of the new Eugenics movement
90% of the population will say that the board of supervisors has much more important issues to address! We shouldn’t be offended by someone else accidentally referring to a trans-gender person as ‘he’ or ‘she’ when we really could not tell.
-He/She-.TRUMP/WON
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MY, My, my, all these changes and he hasn’t taken office yet.