I would like to take this opportunity to commend the Editorial Board for their decision to ask anyone whom your reporters interview to provide a preferred pronoun. This gesture of responsibility and respect speaks well to your publication’s integrity...

Creating an inclusive social environment is something we ought to strive for. We live in a diverse society and must find it within ourselves to respect others even if we may not see eye to eye.The lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community has made...

As a journalist and a Northern Star alumnus, I applaud the paper for its decision to identify those quoted in articles by their preferred pronoun.In today’s age, something like gender can often be a fluid thing, and policies like the one recently adopted...

The Northern Star now directs its writers to ask interviewees for their preferred pronoun. Northern journalists are dispensed from determining whether the person they’re talking to is male or female, singular or plural — the subject of the article...