When the United Nations introduced guidelines with gender-inclusive strategies for six major languages, not everyone was keen to jump on the bandwagon. Some felt the changes altered the symmetry of ...

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France banned the use and teaching of gender-neutral grammar in schools as part of an effort to push back on social revisionism. The push for gender-neutral words is “harmful to the practice and ...

A movement to make Spanish grammar less centered on male terms has gained broad adherence, including from President Alberto Fernández. By Daniel Politi BUENOS AIRES — Three days into Argentina’s ...

The victory of Kim de l’Horizon, a nonbinary writer, in a top literary prize stirred a debate about how the German language can accommodate people who don’t identify as male or female. By Thomas ...

Many, but not all languages, employ grammatical gender. Anyone who has studied Spanish or German will know that grammatical gender is essential and can be unrelated to biological sex. For example, el ...