North Miami-Dade News

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Rep. María Elvira Salazar (R-FL) introduced the Reject Latinx Act to prevent the Biden Administration from referring to Latinos and Hispanics as ‘Latinx’ in public, executive branch documents. Salazar is joined by Reps. Byron Donalds (R-FL), Alex Mooney (R-WV), Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ), Tony Gonzales (R-TX), Carlos Giménez (R-FL), and Burgess Owens (R-UT).

“The Biden Administration is waging a woke crusade on Latino identity and the Spanish language,” said Rep. Salazar. “We cannot allow the Biden Administration to use White House communications to attack our language and impose progressive ideology on our people.”

‘Latinx’ is a woke invention of the neo-Marxist left and as such should never be used to refer to someone of Latin American or Hispanic ancestry. Far-left professors in universities introduced the term in 2004 with the sole purpose of infiltrating the Hispanic community with gender ideology. Despite the push by college campuses to use the word, the public continues to reject it.

Latinx is overwhelmingly rejected by the Hispanic population in the United States. Many find the term extremely offensive and patronizing. Polls conducted in the last four years all show us that most Latinos have never even heard of ‘Latinx,’ let alone use it:

• A November 2021 Bendixen and Amandi poll found that only 2% of Latinos used the term “Latinx.”
• A June-July 2021 Gallup poll found that 4% of Latinos used the term.
• A December 2019 Pew poll found that 76% of Latinos had never even heard of the term Latinx, 20% had and did not use the term and only 3% used it.

The Biden Administration will be prohibited from using ‘Latinx’ only in official, public-facing documents. There are numerous instances in which official communications from the White House contain the word. The bill will not prohibit its use by the legislative branch, the judicial branch, or by the President in a speech or any agency official in routine email communications, signatures, or any other private communications.

The bill is designed to prevent the term from being forced on Latinos by the federal bureaucracy, and not to limit freedom of speech.

For a one-page summary of the bill, click here.

For the text of the bill, click here.

Original source can be found here.