The Webster word of the year is "they." Apparently, it is used to refer to a person whose gender identity is nonbinary.

It is also currently the most looked up word.

In my LGBTQ+ Support Group I have a few who relate as Non-Binary. I'm glad the word has got thew attention it has but it stems form whether the word is singular or plural. The confusion over the tense led many to look it up. I see the word as singular as a non-binary female is "they".

The PC crowd brought this on which is a bit strange as they/them has been used in a singular tense for close 600 years!

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Elandra77

@SW-User That is true. Intersex and agender people often use this as well. Gender Fluid and Gender Queer people also gravitate to it at times-but not always.

SW-User

@Elandra77 What about the word "it?"

Elandra77

@SW-User In on the fence about this as I've heard so many parents scold others who call their newborn baby an 'it".

We are by no means a 12 step group and we do not engage in hate. Differences make us stronger as a whole! But i do have each fill out a name tag they wish to be called--it need not be their birth name--and their preferred pronouns. "It" we have not come across yet. I see the word as being a bit impersonal but I have no issue with "it"

We DO NOT believe in ---or support, Conversion, Aversion or Reparative therapy in any means.