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Is There a Gender-Neutral Linguistic Revolution Taking Place Among Baltimore Youth?

I’ve always associated the gender-neutral pronoun with the sorts of progressive liberal arts campuses and communes, places where fluid gender identities are common and the old him/her doesn’t fly. But according to Dr. Margaret Troyer, young people in Baltimore City have invented their own “gender-neutral third-person singular pronoun, [used] primarily in subject position.” And that […]

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