Gender Neutral Street Signs to be Installed in the Railway City by Canada Day!

Manitoba St. was the first street sign to get the gender neutral facelift.

In a prescient move, the current city council has decided to create gender neutral street signs throughout the Railway City.

The first sign to get a makeover was the potentially triggering “MANitoba” street. Now, when people walk to the Horton Market, they will be able to do so in the blissful abandon that only a city filled with gender neutral street signs can provide.

Current list of signs approved for change.

“I always thought it was weird that there were so many signs either beginning or ending with ‘man’ while the gender equivalent ‘woman’ had no representation,” said Bolinda Marchande.


Tobias Constantine also mentioned that “If we’re going to have gender parity in parliament and the workplace, then why shouldn’t we have equal representation or gender neutrality in our street signs? It just makes sense - it’s 2018, people!”

Grayden Laing with one of his commemorative magnets.

Grayden Laing, of Laing Studios, has also joined the bandwagon and is selling life-sized commemorative “Personitoba” magnets for $50 a piece to celebrate this monumental occasion.

The city manager is hoping to get all of the new signs installed before Canada Day.


*UPDATE*

After the first signs went up, several concerned citizens pointed out to council that the word “person” actually has the word “son” within it, which they found concerning. The new signs have subsequently been replaced with the old ones while council debates whether to replace “man” with “people”, for example “Manitoba St.” would now become “Peopletoba St.”.

Some signs may be grandfathered in due to their historical relevance. This courtesy will be extended on a case by case basis.

The current list of street signs up for a name change include: Inkerman Street (Inkerpeople), Brinkman Court (Brinkpeople), Manor Road (Peopleor), Mandeville Road (Peopledeville), and Hagerman Crescent (Hagerpeople).

The newest names to be added include: Jackson Street (Jackchild), Anderson Avenue (Anderchild), Johnson Place (Johnchild), Thompson Avenue (Thompchild).


*UPDATE TO THE UPDATE*

Sharp-eyed denizens of the Railway City have begun noting the existence of gender-specific pronouns that should also be updated to the new gender neutral naming system. Specifically, “Blue Heron Place” should be changed to “Blue Theyon Place”.

A dedicated committee with GIS specialists, a linguist, and a city representative has been convened to ensure no other potentially offensive and/or triggering street names are omitted from the name change roster.

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