Also from the GNU Kind Communication Guidelines: "Please don't raise unrelated political issues in GNU Project discussions, because they are off-topic." My existence as a trans person is political. All technical decisions are political decisions about which users needs to meet.https://twitter.com/mjg59/status/1054393356216877056 …
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As a writer and editor, I really fail to see the furor over singular they/them/their. It's been standard grammatical practice in English for a very long time, at least the last century, to use these in the singular form if the gender of the pronoun subject is unknown.
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The fact that people don't remember learning that, or were perhaps never correctly taught that (if an instructor preferred a s/he or similar approach) is not an excuse to ignore standard conventions or treat them as somehow new/strange/different.
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I have never once had to call out an author (or had my own writing called out) for pronoun confusion over singular they/them/their. I frequently have to correct pronoun confusion in writing featuring multiple subjects with the same pronouns. (side note: use proper names!)
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