The evidence?
Students at the University have been told:
Essays will be marked down unless they use ‘gender-sensitive language’.Why? Because, according to a document sent to students:
Language is important and highly symbolic.
Well, yes, language is undeniably important, I mean, our whole civilization depends upon the human gift of speech, but what has that to do with the use of "gender-sensitive language," whatever "gender-sensitive language" may be?