Ford says he meant no offense, didn’t understand ‘she/they’
“The use of gender pronouns in the letter was unfamiliar to me so I had a lack of knowledge of this practice when I made the query,” Memphis City Council member Edmund Ford Sr. wrote in a statement. “My asking about the use of ‘she/they’ had nothing to do with gender identity, because I had no familiarity with this as a means of self-identification.” (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian file)
Memphis City Council member Edmund Ford Sr. said Friday evening he asked about a county employee’s use of personal pronouns because he didn’t know what they meant, but “could have been less harsh in my delivery and tone.”
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