Whether a birth certificate for a same-sex couple in the IVF case mentions "mother" or the less ambiguous "inseminated person" is indeed fully inconsequential for the vast majority of the American public.

Doesn't stop populists from wipping up outrage.

Changes in official government paperwork to be more inclusive are very much not "control of language and attempts to assert control over its use and definitions".

Calm down with the rhetorical fallacies...

I mean, you could describe the Trump administration's executive order requiring government agencies to stop using Gulf of Mexico and instead use Gulf of America as simply "changes in government paperwork." But I think it's obviously also an attempt to change the language.

It's not just some govt. form. It's literally about using it as a reason to ban the world's largest news agency from govt. press briefings.

I wouldn't classify it as "changes in government paperwork" since the EO defined the official name for a geographical feature, very different from some law changing the usage of a term in a government's form. Quite a different level and degree, if that's out of consideration everything can be reduced to some more general form to be played as equivalent.

I also DGAF about the renaming of the gulf of mexico relative to essentially any of the other, much more consequential actions the administration is taking.

It’s pure theater designed to distract.