Of course this would start in Berkeley

This:

Legislators in Berkeley, California, voted Tuesday to eliminate more than two-dozen gender-specific terms in its city code and replace them with more gender-neutral words. The measure proposed changing words such as 'manpower' or 'manhole' in the city's municipal code to 'human effort' or 'maintenance hole' and 'he' and 'she' to 'they' and 'them.'

The measure replacing the gender-specific language passed in a unanimous vote by the Berkeley City Council, Tuesday night. 

"Amending the municipal code to include gender-neutral pronouns by eliminating any gender preference language within the municipal code will promote equality," the measure states. 

The measure revises other terminology found in Berkeley's city code which has up until now, mostly used masculine pronouns. Job titles, such as 'policeman,' will be changed to 'police officer' while things like 'Sorority' and 'Fraternity' are changed to the gender-neutral 'collegiate Greek system residence.' Even words like 'brother' and 'sister' have been replaced with 'sibling' while gendered pronouns such as, he and she, would be replaced with specific titles such as 'the official' or 'the operator.' 

Council member Rigel Robinson, who proposed the measure, praised lawmakers for passing it in a tweet Tuesday night. 

"Tonight, Berkeley City Council adopted first reading of an ordinance responding to my proposal revising the municipal code to include gender neutral pronouns," Robinson wrote. "There is power in language. This is a small move, but it matters."

Let's put the devil's advocate argument out there now. Why doesn't it introduce some linguistic fairness to speak of "maintenance holes" and "human effort"? Well, in the case of those holes, it's because the term was coined when it was exclusively men who were climbing into them. In fact, it's still predominantly men climbing into them. And "manpower" is generally applied to situations in which physical heft - upper body strength - is going to be involved. Indeed, it would sound a sour note if used to talk about increasing the staff at a vegan muffin shop or the local arts council.

"Police officer" I can see. There are indeed more female police officers all the time.

But "brother" and "sorority" refer to individuals and groups whose identities are inextricably bound up with DNA. A brother is a male sibling. A sorority is a group of women. The terms provide key specific information about the entity being discussed. Is this Robinson person paving the way for establishing as a premise of the city's policy formulation that gender is an abstract construct?

This will spread, these questions and observations will get glossed over, and post-America's slide into infantilism will accelerate.