The Cook County Record published a 2-part story on the possibility of new court rules governing the use of pronouns in courts in Illinois and elsewhere. For both parts of the story, they spoke to Illinois law professors Lena Shapiro and Suja Thomas.

“I don’t think there’s any doubt that many, many, many jurisdictions are going to adopt rules or practices or customs, whether it be formal rules or general customs, to use the pronouns a person goes by,” Thomas said. “The court system has a responsibility to be respectful to the litigants and lawyers who appear before the courts, and as a result, they will adopt – over time – rules or customs to address people by their proper pronouns.

“But … there will be holdouts, just as there are with anything else. There will be places that believe they don’t have to hold to these types of practices.”

Read Part 1 and Part 2 of the piece at cookcountyrecord.com.