Man, what happened to the AP Stylebook?
I remember we used to look at this guide all the time in school to give us a better idea of how to go about this thing called writing.
It's since become, well, a joke.
Need proof?
Yup, the stylebook is now full of transgender newspeak and 2SLGBTQIA+ nonsense. Let's dive into their "Transgender Coverage Topical Guide" a little shall we?
Avoid false balance — giving a platform to unqualified claims or sources in the guise of balancing a story by including all views. For instance, don't quote people speaking about biology or athletic regulations unless they have the proper background. If you do need to use the quotes, fact-check them within the story. Ensure that organizations offering data or other factual information in a story are using sound methodology grounded in valid science.
So basically, right off the bat, don't reference Daily Wire, The Blaze, or this website you're on right now. You can totally use Fox News though, I'll assume, because they use the proper pronouns and such.
More from this 1984 stylebook:
Use the term sex assigned at birth instead of biological sex, birth gender, was identified at birth as, born a girl and the like.
The word identify is frequently used to describe how someone views themself and can be useful when writing about issues of identity. But often phrasing like is a woman is more to the point than identifies as a woman.
Avoid terms like biological sex, along with biological male and biological female, which opponents of transgender rights sometimes use to refer to transgender women and transgender men, respectively. They are also redundant because sex is inherently biological.
Generally avoid the often false terms groom or groomer, which some people use to stoke fears about LGBTQ+ people's interactions with children, or education about LGBTQ+ people, comparing their actions to those of child molesters…
Do not use the term transgenderism, which frames transgender identity as an ideology.
🤣🤣🤣
Okay, groomer!!
Again, you'll never see Not the Bee using these guidelines; so, in short, we're like the heathens of the 2SLGBTQIA+ religion.
In reality, this is not a stylebook for journalism then; it's a stylebook for our new national religion.
And believe it or not, there's more:
Do not equate a gender transition with becoming a man, becoming a woman or the outdated terminology sex change…
Don't refer in interviews or stories to preferred or chosen pronouns. Instead, the pronouns they use, whose pronouns are, who uses the pronouns, etc…
In the AP, use of a transgender person's previous name must be approved by managers.
Hey Joel, is it cool if I say Bruce Jenner?
Yup, looks like we're good.
Seriously though, this is some 1984 stuff right here, isn't it?
Like, I'm not the least bit surprised by any of this "guidance" because I've been paying attention. And you, dear reader, are likely in the same boat.
A tiny bit more of this garbage and then I have to go wash my brain.
Avoid the word mutilation, a politicized and subjective term often used to mischaracterize surgery.
Nope, I'm gonna keep saying "mutilation" because that's what it is — mutilation.
This stuff is science fiction, except, it's not fiction at all.
We're being led astray and the only way to stop this nonsense is to do exactly the things the AP Stylebook is telling us not to do.
This is what propaganda look like, folks, and I'm not with it.
I'll be using all these terms more regularly in the future, not less.
And the weirdos on the left will hopefully thank me for it someday when they finally open their eyes and wake up to the totalitarianism they've created.
