Share your ESH around adoption of new preamble?

Hello Fellows of Reddit,

Looking for some guidance and stories of your experience. My current home group is filled with a lot of people of a much older generation, we are an English speaking group outside the U.S. In our business meeting the idea of changing the preamble to the more updated version (“men and women” —-> “people”) was discussed and motion was denied on the basis of “this is how we’ve always done it.” This is disheartening because I know people that have left our group because of this, and I personally believe the updated language is more inclusive and less controversial in this good year of our lord 2025. I know personal opinions are not relevant to group consciousness and adherence to the traditions so I’d like to take a fact based approach.

I’m curious if any of you have been involved in these conversations in your own home groups and how you were able to frame your position for adoption of the new language. Is this change aligned with the traditions? Did you discuss language changes in the first 164 pages that were controversial at the time? I’d love to hear any stories or examples that could provide some context and more informed discussion that I can bring back to my group.

Please respect that I am not looking to hear why the new version is bad, I’m very informed on that position.

TYFYS 🙏🏽

EDIT: One idea I had was to take a survey of as many US meetings as possible to get a feel for how many have adopted this change. My home group prides itself on “being the people that bring American AA to (little Caribbean country)”. Could you share in the comments the name of your group, city, and which version you’re using?