Re: Gender (was: Homosexuality and gender identity)

Christophe Grandsire scripsit:

> Personally, when I use it, I prefer to
> refer a second time to the person with a "correctly" gendered noun (or the
> name of that person) so that next time I can use the proper pronoun
> without feeling uneasy about it.
Sounds like a good plan.

BTW, how strange would it be to use "ils" of a group that just happens
to contain only women?  There is a running dispute among Americans
about the propriety of saying "guys" about a group of women, given that
"guy", singular, is certainly male; some people like it, some don't.

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