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What’s in a (gender) pronoun? A response to Ben Shapiro

24 January 2018

7:46 AM

24 January 2018

7:46 AM

Is it he or she? Him or her? In the real world away from the keyboards and our smartphones, gender pronouns are simple, and they don’t have to be complex. But simplifying gender pronouns to apparent, and therefore unconfirmed, biology is just as confusing as the transtrenderism of trying to turn the plural pronouns ‘they’ and ‘them’ into gender-neutral pronouns.

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