Sarah Huckabee Sanders - Arkansas's Executive order banning alleged woke words doesn't make sense
Channel: Caffeine Zombies
Date: 2023-10-23

Sarah Huckabee Sanders comes out of the gate swinging against Woke words. She seems to struggle, going back and forth between claiming gender neutral terms are hurting people's feelings vs those terms being unscientific. The Executive Order suffers from its own inaccuracies, word/phrase swaps that are less accurate, and is about banning speech on documents. This is also bad for anyone concerned with the government censoring content/speech/etc - Am I wrong here? This feels, if not against the First Amendment, pretty scarily close.

P.S. I have searched the past couple of days trying to find out the documents that are changing, how many people were affected previously, and whether gender-neutral terms were being forced on people. I couldn't find anything, that doesn't mean it doesn't exist, so if you have anything to share about Arkansas, or from a legal perspective, I'm listening.

Disclaimer: I'm also definitely not a lawyer.

Original video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5S5cX3nzfyE

Research Links (sometimes more than in the video due to editing):
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/discovery-where-babies-come-from

https://governor.arkansas.gov/executive_orders/executive-order-to-eliminate-woke-anti-women-words-from-state-government-and-respect-women/

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/womxn

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Womxn

https://law.justia.com/codes/arkansas/2020/title-20/subtitle-2/chapter-16/subchapter-5/section-20-16-507/

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/discovery-where-babies-come-from

https://genetic.org/variations/

https://www.livescience.com/4971-men-breasts.html

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/09/pregnant-people-gender-identity/620031/

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-redefined-the-idea-of-2-sexes-is-overly-simplistic1/