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To: ColdOne
When Oregon resident Jamie Shupe quietly walked into a Portland, Oregon, courthouse this June and received permission to change their gender from female to "non-binary," they did so without the assistance of any nonprofit or national transgender advocacy group.

What's with the plural pronoun?

Does he have a mouse in his pocket?

15 posted on 12/18/2016 9:42:14 AM PST by Flycatcher (God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
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To: Flycatcher

It’s a clumsy attempt to come up with a new pronoun to describe these thingies.
I suggest a combination of “she,” “he,” and “it.” Thus you can say “they” are S-H-IT.


22 posted on 12/18/2016 9:47:43 AM PST by Jagman
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To: Flycatcher

I wondered about that and concluded it was a compromise the editor came up with to avoid calling it it.


31 posted on 12/18/2016 9:52:27 AM PST by MurrietaMadman
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To: Flycatcher
Does he have a mouse in his pocket?

For shame -- how politically incorrect of you!!

Does he it have a mouse in his its pocket?

49 posted on 12/18/2016 10:02:52 AM PST by Bob (Now, Republicans get to sing "Happy Days Are Here Again". Enjoy the suck, rats.)
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