Indiana Attorney General Rokita weighs in on pronouns in the workplace

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12 thoughts on “Indiana Attorney General Rokita weighs in on pronouns in the workplace

  1. This dude sucks. I can’t think of another AG who would put on a spectacle just to say, “You have the right to be terrible and disrespectful to your co-workers and employees.” What a buffoon.

  2. as an employer of a just a few folks I don’t think I’d be interested in hiring any individual to make decisions for my company that can’t figure out if he/she is a boy or a girl. The IBJ has certainly become an echo chamber for every magpie that can’t handle the truth. Rokita is spot ON

    1. dan m. I’ve been in a lot of locker rooms and done a little living also and have yet to encounter a ‘hermaphrodite’. As for my niece/nephew that had gender confusion I would love them enough to confront them and get them the obvious help they needed.

    2. You may not have noticed, but….this is finally an enforceable code. If you discriminate against an employee based on gender identification, you will be violating federal law.

      Which is appropriate.

  3. I don’t care whether you agree or disagree on this topic. This guy wastes taxpayer dollars fighting these social issues but he doesn’t even find the time to protect consumers from the things that fall within his job description and matter most. Over him, trying to continuously run for his next job rather than focusing on the job that he has.

    1. Not to mention he’s just a giant hypocrite. Remember his “Defeat the Elite” tagline and then it came out that he requires an eight-page set of instructions just for someone to drive him around? Rokita is as thin-skinned and lazy as they come.

    2. Just another awful Republican. The party that shoots puppies in the face. And love the Jefferson Shreve commercials. Can this dude be any more desperate? He’s embarrassing. He really seems to enjoy rejection.

  4. Rokita made clear that Indiana’s Civil Rights Act doesn’t include sexual orientation or gender identity as protected classes. But he failed to make equally clear that under federal law, both ARE protected classes when it comes to discrimination. And, in case Rokita doesn’t know, federal law is supreme.

    1. Apparently IUI Law has some remedial education to do with one of its graduates.

      Maybe Judge Sullivan would do a special tutorial.

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