They Put Their Pronouns in Their Email Signatures. Then the University Dismissed Them.

Two residence-life staff members at a small religious institution have been terminated after they refused to remove their pronouns from their email signatures, which violated the private university’s policy. Raegan Zelaya and Shua Wilmot, who oversaw the women’s and men’s residence halls, respectively, were informed last week by Houghton University, in New York, that they were being terminated immediately. Both were working on one-year contracts; Zelaya had already said she wouldn’t return next year, while Wilmot, who had been planning to return, was initially told in February that his contract wouldn’t be renewed.