Executive order bans gender-neutral language in Arkansas government documents - Fayetteville Flyer
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Gov. Sanders cites an example from a Department of Health memo and claims other uses of what she calls “nonsense terms” have been reported to her office.
  • diprount_tomato@lemmy.world
    212·
    1 year ago

    Aren’t those cases referring to individuals you don’t know the gender of? Like “I saw a silhouette moving, they were going somewhere”

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      13·
      1 year ago

      'Tis meet that some more audience than a mother, since nature makes them partial, should o’erhear the speech.

      • Hamlet, Act III, Scene 3

      There’s not a man I meet but doth salute me As if I were their well-acquainted friend

      • The Comedy of Errors, Act IV, Scene 3

      Sounds like the gender was known.

    • Chozo@kbin.social
      51·
      1 year ago

      Yes, which is literally why many nonbinary people prefer “they” for their third person pronouns.