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Jane Goodall's first scientific paper was sent back to her with amendments, the editor having replaced every "he"/"she" (referring to chimpanzees) with "it", and every "who" with "which". She changed them back, refusing to mark non-human animals as inferior.
stancarey.wordpress.com/2015/0

Gaëtanelle Gilquin and George M. Jacobs - animals with relative pronoun who in BNC
Sentence first · Annals of animals which get ‘who’
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The annual Gender Census report is now out for 2025.

There were over 43,000 responses from people whose genders (or lack thereof) are not described by the M/F gender binary. The report details our preferences for identity words, titles, pronouns, and some family words.

The full report: gendercensus.com/results/2025-

The summary: gendercensus.com/2025-worldwid

It's alright if you sometimes have to make concessions in regards to pronouns, words, and titles in order deal with life. You're not "giving up," and being addressed properly is still important.

But sometimes people mean well despite mistakes. A person can address you flawlessly and still be bigoted. A set of pronouns in one language may not translate to another.

It's more important to survive than to die striving for perfection.

"Fee! Fie! Fo! Fum! I smell the blood of an Englishman!" Mother read emphatically.

"Mummy, why does the giant say fee, fly, flo, fum?"

"Fee, fie, fo, fum are the giant's pronouns. They're repeated so you remember them."

"What?!"

"Fee is angry because Jack stole fie goose."

"You're just making it up. I want to ask Daddy!"

"You can ask your father later. We'll have to wait for fum to get home."

English needs two versions of "we" and "us": one which includes me and you, and one which includes me and some other person/people, but not you.

Similarly, I wish "you" and "thou" were both still in common parlance. Funny how there's such a pushback about the singular "they" but not the singular "you."

English is a messy language. #disambiguation #english #pronouns