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Gender-neutral language or gender-inclusive language is language that avoids reference towards a particular sex or gender. In English, this includes use of nouns that are not gender-specific to refer to roles or professions, [1] formation of phrases in a coequal manner, and discontinuing the collective use of male or female terms. [2]
A gender neutral title is a title that does not indicate the gender identity, whatever it may be, of the person being formally addressed.Honorifics are used in situations when it is inappropriate to refer to someone only by their first or last name, such as when addressing a letter, or when introducing the person to others.
With several countries revising their marriage laws to recognize same-sex couples in the 21st century, all major English dictionaries have revised their definition of the word marriage to either drop gender specifications or supplement them with secondary definitions to include gender-neutral language or explicit recognition of same-sex unions.
Do not omit gender when the result is pointlessly vague: "Queen Elizabeth II was the mother of Charles III" rather than "Queen Elizabeth II was a parent of Charles III" Do not use gender-neutral speech when it will confuse the reader. For example, it is generally best to write about "pregnant women", rather than "pregnant men and women".
Waaddao Chumaporn, a prominent advocate for gender rights and co-founder of Bangkok Pride, which helped organize Thursday’s mass wedding, said she hopes other laws can be amended to be more ...
"Neopronouns, and pronouns in general, may give you a bit of information about gender, but it’s definitely not the end all be all in terms of information about gender."
Gender neutrality (adjective form: gender-neutral), also known as gender-neutralism or the gender neutrality movement, is the idea that policies, language, and other social institutions (social structures or gender roles) [1] should avoid distinguishing roles according to people's sex or gender.
Gender-neutral language is language that avoids assumptions about the social gender or biological sex of people referred to in speech or writing. In contrast to most other Indo-European languages, English does not retain grammatical gender and most of its nouns, adjectives and pronouns are therefore not gender-specific.