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💭 Do you know how to use gender-neutral pronouns in your native tongue?

🗣️ On #InternationalPronounsDay, we're taking a deep-dive into non-binary pronouns in a range of languages.

🌍 Join us on a linguistic trip around the world.
🇪🇸 Spanish

Pronouns, nouns and adjectives are gendered in Spanish.

The suffixes -o and -a are the most common gender markers, but many non-binary people now replace them with an -e instead.

🇬🇧 English

Although not entirely genderless, the English language is more inclusive than many.

While you've probably heard of the increasingly popular 'they/them' as alternative pronouns, others are also becoming popular.

Many use neo-pronouns, including 'xe', 'ze' and 'co'. People protesting for trans and non-binary rights
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@bbcbitesize deleting your tweet & then retweeting with replies disabled is not a solution to you promoting political ideology to children. This is against new @educationgovuk guidelines. We will be writing to @GavinWilliamson & @BBC to complain. @Baroness_Nichol @Tanni_GT #LGBT
The image chosen to illustrate the article on twitter & Facebook appears to show a mixed sex changing room. Mixed sex changing undermines #safeguarding.Here is the full article from @bbcbitesize. There are a number of concerns with the article itself. bbc.in/3mbwd66
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(1/3) It’s #InternationalPronounsDay, so here’s a story I wrote in 2018 about how some Temple faculty acknowledge and respect their students’ pronouns. This was my second article in The Temple News and a learning experience for me as a journalist a human.
temple-news.com/temples-facult…
(2/3)... and here’s a link to a plagiarized version of my article, which appeared on Breitbart a few days later. Except Breitbart put a different tone on my words. And misgendered one of my sources by changing their pronouns.
breitbart.com/tech/2018/04/0…
(3/3) Respect people.
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