Article 1H9YK Lower-case "x" as a gender-neutral typographic convention

Lower-case "x" as a gender-neutral typographic convention

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Cory Doctorow
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You can type Mx instead or Mr and Ms to denote someone whose gender is unknown or nonbinary, "Latinx" is a gender-neutral and nonbinary-friendly version of Latina and Latino -- it's part of a wider trend to backforming gender neutrality into a language that assumes gender is a binary instead of a continuum. (more")

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