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U. Hegde
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I am not sure that is the point. If change is to be effected, the process matters, and here, pronouns are part of the process. Let's say another gender neutral person asks to be referred to as
something else and so on and so forth. How would you keep track? It
can't be what an individual person wants to be called - or

My problem with the "they" is that it conveys a totally different meaning and is therefore confusing. I had suggested elsewhere that maybe the gender-neutral community could see the benefit in making a neologism for this - example - xe/xer/xem instead - it may sound weird in the beginning but it is way less confusing

Trudat - but the earlier they (plural) get together as a group and figure out what they (singular and plural) would like to be called, the simpler it would be for the world to accept. For example, I find myself slipping into he/she, not because I want to be insulting, but because it is so difficult to use they. In an

I'm sorry, I find this pronoun of "they/them/their" to be terribly confusing. What if the gender-neutral community as a whole decided on a new word - let's say "xe, xem, xeir" - may sound a bit French but will be easier to figure out.

Where is the puppy they got last week? Do we take it that they didn't get the puppy becasue of the BigC? Then Max would've melted down. And if they did, how come it's not running around driving them nuts with pee and poo?

Where is the puppy they got last week? Do we take it that they didn't get the puppy becasue of the BigC? Then Max would've melted down. And if they did, how come it's not running around driving them nuts with pee and poo?