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The Sacramento Bee used the gender-neutral "hir" for 25 years from the 1920s to the 1940s. [ 15 ] [ 17 ] In 1970, Mary Orovan invented the pronoun "co/coself", which gained use in a cooperative community in Virginia called the Twin Oaks Community , where it was still in use as of 2011.
Chromosomal sex is determined at the time of fertilization; a chromosome from the sperm cell, either X or Y, fuses with the X chromosome in the egg cell. Gonadal sex refers to the gonads, that is the testicles or ovaries, depending on which genes are expressed. Phenotypic sex refers to the structures of the external and internal genitalia. [6]
X-gender; X-jendā [49] Xenogender [22] [50] can be defined as a gender identity that references "ideas and identities outside of gender". [27]: 102 This may include descriptions of gender identity in terms of "their first name or as a real or imaginary animal" or "texture, size, shape, light, sound, or other sensory characteristics". [27]: 102
The federal government will only recognize two sexes, male and female, under an executive order that President Donald Trump signed Monday. The order reverses efforts by the Biden administration to ...
In humans, the presence of the Y chromosome is responsible for triggering male development; in the absence of the Y chromosome, the fetus will undergo female development. In most species with XY sex determination, an organism must have at least one X chromosome in order to survive. [2] [3]
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has directed the State Department to freeze applications in the passport pipeline with “X” selected as the gender identifier, according to internal communication ...
Under former Secretary of State Antony Blinken, passports with the “X” gender marker, which he said would mean “unspecified or another gender identity,” were rolled out on April 11, 2022. AP.
It should be acknowledged that the notion of using "Xe" has been proposed before as one of many Gender-specific and gender-neutral pronouns but with different details. But so long as these schemes remain out of widespread use, we should feel free to reinvent them, and especially, to invent them with an eye toward delivering additional desirable ...