'Yo' is the word when 'he' or 'she' won't do

Natasha · January 02, 2008, 05:19:46 PM

'Yo' is the word when 'he' or 'she' won't do

Newscientist.com
By Mark Peters
01/02/2008

ADRIAN QUINTERO is a transgender person with strong feelings about pronouns. "Our language really needs words to acknowledge folks who do not feel included in the gender binary," says Quintero, who uses the pronouns "ze" (or "zie") and "hir", because "they have the freedom to mean something other than, or in addition to, male and female.

Jay · January 03, 2008, 07:54:30 AM

*rolls eyes*

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'Yo' is the word when 'he' or 'she' won't do

Natasha

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