Martin Rundkvist on Nostr: Grammatical confession: when someone asks to be called "them", I just can't do it in ...
Grammatical confession: when someone asks to be called "them", I just can't do it in speech. Not because of any gender ID hostility, but because it hurts my grammar hardware too much. "Them" is plural to me. I default to using their name rather than any pronoun at all.
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