3. CMV: Transgenderism is gender dysphoria which is a disorder.

CMV: Transgenderism is gender dysphoria which is a disorder.

Singular "they" has definitely been in English for a long time, but it never had the full semantic scope that other singular third-person pronouns like "he" or "she" had.

It was most commonly used when the identity of a person wasn't known, or as a compliment in certain specific sentence structures ("each ... they ...") The use of "they" for known individuals in all sentence types is an innovation.

I'm fine with using an innovation - I just think pretending "wide" singular they isn't an innovation by pointing to "narrow" singular they going back to the 1300's is a disingenuous argument. If it truly wasn't an innovation, you wouldn't have to make the argument for its acceptability and grammatical correctness in the first place. (There are plenty of languages without gendered third-person pronouns after all, and they just use them, they don't have to leverage an argument for them.)

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