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Gender-neutral pronouns are those that don’t assume a male/female binary. After the recent change by the Merriam-Webster dictionary to add ‘they’ as a way to refer to nonbinary people who do not identify as male nor female, the most common gender neutral pronouns are ‘they, them, their, theirs, themself.’
In contrast, gendered pronouns would be:
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Current research estimates that intersex people compose 1.7% of the population, which makes being intersex as common as having red hair.
While many people don’t know what it means to be intersex, most people have heard the term before.
What does it mean to be intersex? Can you be intersex without knowing it? How do you find out if you are intersex? [Read more…] about Intersex: Its Meaning and Definition
All too often, the topic of gender gets oversimplified. This is because the science, history, and commercialization of it are largely misunderstood. This happens for a few reasons.
First, although medically and scientifically inaccurate, it can be convenient to group people into “buckets.” I don’t agree with this logic, but it often happens.
Second, because gender is bimodal (not binary), much of the population does fall into the categories of “female” and “male.” By bimodal, I mean gender is a spectrum that has clusters.
Of course, there’s a diverse range of people outside these categories, but you can see how groupings of people could arise when averages are used and inclusivity is not considered. [Read more…] about 5 Facts About Gender: Stop Splitting Humans Into Pink and Blue
The gender spectrum is an understanding that gender is not binary, but rather a spectrum of biological, mental and emotional traits that exist along a continuum.
In contrast, the gender binary—also called gender binarism or genderism—is a belief that gender is composed of two distinct and opposite genders (women/men) in which there is not overlap. [Read more…] about The Gender Spectrum: A Scientist Explains Why Gender Isn’t Binary
Beginning in 2019, two major airlines started to offer travelers the option to choose “unspecified” or “undisclosed” as a gender option during the booking process. United Airlines was the first to introduce it in March 2019, while American Airlines followed suit in December 2019.
This move is a major step toward acknowledging people along the gender spectrum, including but not limited to transgender, intersex, nonbinary and gender nonconforming (GNC) identities. [Read more…] about Gender Neutral Airlines (And Travel) On The Rise