Chinese pronouns are largely split between female and male – prompting LGBTQ activists to invent their own gender-neutral pronoun. That movement just took a big step forward.

What makes this moment particularly striking is that Chinese did not originally have gendered pronouns at all. The character ...

Sweden added a gender-neutral pronoun, "hen," to its dictionary in 2012, and it's since become part of everyday usage.

Apr. 10—Everybody has them. Simply put, pronouns are words that refer to a person without using that person's name: I, you, we, he, she, they. The way society views the use of pronouns has changed ...

A new gender-neutral pronoun, 'X也' (ta), is set to revolutionize Chinese language use. Approved by Unicode in September 2025, ...

The Pentagon quietly reversed its gender pronoun policy for award citations on Tuesday after it had previously updated its Manual of Military Decorations and Awards to require the use of ...

For many years as a law professor, I took pains to refer to individuals as "he or she" to maintain inclusivity in the classroom. More recently, I have begun using "they" for all persons in my ...

University of Colorado Boulder has published a pronouns guide that advises students to assume others are transgender or nonbinary unless individuals say otherwise. The school's Center for Inclusion ...

The singular "they" is a pronoun option for people who don't strongly identify as either male or female and want to avoid "he" and "she." ...

“There’s always the fear of unacceptance and confusion, but your pronouns are a right that can never be taken away,” agender student Cruz told GLSEN, an education organization that supports safe and ...

Nearly 900 pronouns will be stripped next month from the “law of the land” in Contra Costa County. The Board of Supervisors on Tuesday unanimously approved a plan to modernize the county’s ordinance ...