SALAZAR’S ‘REJECT LATINX ACT’ PASSES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Yesterday, the House of Representatives passed Rep. María Elvira Salazar (R-FL)’s amendment to the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Bill that bans the Biden Administration from using the term “Latinx” on public-facing, government documents. The amendment was inspired by her similarly-named legislation, the Reject Latinx Act . Although more than 90% of Latinos reject this term, the Biden White House has made it a point to continue referring to Latinos as Latinx. “ The reality is that the Spanish language has two genders: masculine and feminine. Male and female. Period. But a new generation wants to destroy a universal Hispanic reality. It wants to erase a grammatical rule that’s been in place for centuries because of an obsession with wokeness ,” said Rep. Salazar. The Biden Administration has used the term in multiple instance . However, that does not take away from the reality that only 2% of Latinos use the term