Five Hispanic Democrats from the state have proposed legislation to outlaw the gender-neutral alternative to “Latino” or “Latina” that describes people of Latin American des…
A group of Hispanic state lawmakers in Connecticut are trying to ban use of the word “Latinx” from official government documents — claiming the term is “offensive” to Spanish-speakers.
The bill’s chief sponsor, Rep. Geraldo Reyes Jr., called Latinx a “woke” term that insults Connecticut’s large Puerto Rican community.However, supporters say the descriptor is more inclusive to both women and gender-non-confirming folks. The masculine plural “Latinos” is used to refer to a group of both men and women in the Spanish language.Connecticut Hispanic state lawmakers will look to ban the use of the word “Latinx” from official government documents.
In Connecticut, a keyword search for the word on the state’s government portal returned 945 hits in documents including press releases, blogs and reports. In 2021, the oldest Hispanic civil rights group in the US — the League of United Latin American Citizens — announced that it would no longer use the term Latinx.
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