Re:The Trans History of the Wild West
by teddyh on Thursday July 04, 2019 @09:55AM
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There were probably people saying very similar things around the time when the “thou”/“you” distinction was being replaced with always using “you”. Both changes of the language make some changes, but not very large changes, and you’ll probably get used to it.
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Re:The Trans History of the Wild West
by toasterlovin on Thursday July 04, 2019 @11:22AM
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The big difference, though, is that most people have no use for this usage of “they” because most people don’t deal with non-binary people on a regular basis, if ever.
Do you have evidence to back up that claim?
Re:The Trans History of the Wild West
by toasterlovin on Friday July 05, 2019 @01:26PM
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The prevalence of gender dysphoria seems to be extremely low:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_dysphoria#Epidemiology
This usage of 'they' would then be further restricted to the subset of people with gender dysphoria who identify as neither male nor female.