The use of singular they as a gender-neutral pronoun has been documented as standard usage in English throughout the past thousand years. This language excludes non-binary people, who would often prefer an unspecified person to be called “they” rather than “he or she,” would prefer a speaker to address “the audience,” and an invitation saying “all genders welcome.” Much of Western society thinks this is inclusive enough, because it doesn’t know there are other genders. For example, calling an unspecified person by he or she pronouns, a speaker addressing “ladies and gentlemen,” an invitation saying “both genders welcome,” and so on. Much of other gender-neutral language has a problem: it gives the idea that female and male are the only genders. It can also give the impression that someone is in some way male, which can be unclear or insulting to people of other genders. It can be arbitrarily seen as either including women or excluding women depending on whims, which has made trouble for women when it happens in legal documents. “Linguists call male terms used to include females androcentric generics.” Androcentric generics have several problems. This is the problem that the gender-neutral “he” pronoun, “you guys,” and similar kinds of language have in common. Much of the language that is often called gender-neutral has a problem: it’s more than a little bit male. English stopped using grammatical gender for inanimate objects, but it still uses grammatical gender for people and personal pronouns. There is enough to make a challenge for non-binary people who don’t want gendered language to be used for them. They may have stopped using that part entirely just to make it simpler. The population of England at that time spoke several languages, and the same inanimate objects had different genders in those different languages. Old English once had grammatical gender for inanimate objects, but this practice started to disappear in the 700s, and vanished in the 1200s. They often choose gender-neutral pronouns so that others won’t see them as female or male, though non-binary people can also choose to use a typically gender pronoun.Įnglish has grammatical gender, but only a vestige of what it once had. People with non-binary gender identities often choose new third-person pronouns for themselves as part of their transition. Some languages only have gender-neutral pronouns, whereas other languages have difficulty establishing any that aren’t gender-specific. A gender-neutral pronoun or gender-inclusive pronoun is one that gives no implications about gender, and could be used for someone of any gender. In standard English, some singular third-person pronouns are “he” and “she,” which are usually seen as gender-specific pronouns, referring to a man and a woman, respectively.
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