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U.S. views on whether teachers should use students' preferred pronouns 2023
According to a survey conducted in 2023, Americans remain divided on whether school policy should encourage or discourage teachers from using students' preferred pronouns, with 39 percent believing that school policy should encourage the teacher to use students' preferred pronouns and 38 percent believing that school policy should discourage the teacher from using a student's preferred pronoun if that is different from the sex on their birth certificate. A further 23 percent believed that school policy should leave it up to the teacher to decide.