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School referring to all pupils as 'they'

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newlife79 · 05/01/2021 15:07

Was just looking at my child's school Twitter feed and noticed that they are referring to all pupils as 'they' rather than he/she. For example, "Katie from Year 7 did well in a Drama competition, they said they really enjoyed taking part".

Is this a new thing? I suppose the person who runs the Twitter feed doesn't want to misgender the child. It seems a bit extreme.

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lazylinguist · 05/01/2021 15:49

How ridiculous. That's basically deciding it's better to refer to virtually everybody by the wrong pronoun, instead of daring to run the very small risk of referring to the occasional individual by the wrong pronoun.

I don't see why people who have 'changed gender' deserve to be called by what they consider the correct terminology, but the rest of humanity doesn't.