To the editor:

Thank you for your coverage of KU Chancellor Douglas Girod’s edict forbidding employees from using personal pronouns in email signatures. As your reporting has shown, there was no penalty attached to the Legislature’s restriction of pronoun use on campus. This is a classic case of “obeying in advance.”

The administration carries out the venal desires of the Trump Administration and its fans in the Statehouse, even as it stonewalls UAKU, the faculty and academic staff union. UAKU has been waiting for months for a counterproposal on compensation.

It’s sad that the chancellor doesn’t spend as much time worrying about KU employees’ and students’ well-being as he does about pronouns and bathrooms.

Joe Harrington,

Lawrence