House Armed Services Committee members Mike Waltz (R-Fla.) and Jim Banks (R-Ind.) are seeking answers from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point after learning cadets were forced to participate in sensitivity training on “understanding and respecting” others’ preferred pronouns.
According to the “facilitator guide” obtained by The Epoch Times, the required training involved a role-play exercise during which one character was instructed to “educate” the others about “respecting pronouns.” The stated purpose of the exercise was “for cadets to gain competence in their bystander intervention skills.”
Questioning the exercise in a March 21 letter to West Point Superintendent Lt. Gen. Steve Gilland, Waltz and Banks noted that the exercise was included as part of the academy’s sexual assault prevention programming….