The rapid growth (and partial retreat) of “they” and “them” has gotten a lot of attention in recent years, but English is ...

Motherly, mother tongue, maiden name and masterpiece are “banned” words in a new EU-funded gender-neutral guide to aid ...

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Most of us use gendered terminology on a regular basis without realizing it. For example, you might walk into a meeting and say, “Hey, guys!” — even if there are people in the meeting whose gender ...

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Far be it from Miss Manners to suggest that any invitation go unanswered. But some items that use the form of invitations are actually ticket sales slips, and may be ignored by those not planning to ...

A Feb. 21 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shows an excerpt of a bill in which several words like "wife" and "mother" are replaced with gender-neutral terms such as "inseminated person" and ...

Since Spanish is a gendered language, it is impossible to remove masculine and feminine words from our vocabulary. If we were to consistently apply this gender-neutral “x” to the end of every Spanish ...