{"id":13516,"date":"2019-08-13T14:44:17","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T20:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/?p=13516"},"modified":"2019-08-13T14:44:17","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T20:44:17","slug":"using-they-as-a-gender-neutral-pronoun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/2019\/08\/13\/using-they-as-a-gender-neutral-pronoun\/","title":{"rendered":"Using \u201cThey\u201d as a gender-neutral pronoun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s an article giving a bit of history on the use of \u201cthey\u201d and advocating for its use as a gender-neutral pronoun.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Letter-for-letter, no part of speech gets people more worked up than pronouns do. Linguistic history is dotted with eruptions of pronoun rage. Right now, the provocation is the gender-neutral pronouns that some nonbinary people have asked to be called by, so that they won&#8217;t have to be identified as &#8220;he&#8221; or &#8220;she.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/08\/06\/744121321\/even-a-grammar-geezer-like-me-can-get-used-to-gender-neutral-pronouns\">[Check out the full article here!]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s an article giving a bit of history on the use of \u201cthey\u201d and advocating for its use as a gender-neutral pronoun. Letter-for-letter, no part of speech gets people more worked up than pronouns do. Linguistic history is dotted with eruptions of pronoun rage. Right now, the provocation is the gender-neutral pronouns that some nonbinary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[266],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-of-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}