5/24/2023 0 Comments Pronoun Envy by Anna LiviaCoupled with increasing numbers of institutions of higher education incorporating gender-neutral pronouns amidst controversy about their usage, this question is particularly relevant in American society. Does Simone de Beauvoir’s phenomenological analysis of recognition applied to the experience of transgender and genderqueer persons who challenge the limits of binary language offer sufficient rationale to implement a gender-neutral pronoun in English? With as many as 41 percent of all transgender persons attempting suicide at least once in their lives - far exceeding average of suicide rate of 4.6 percent across the United States - there is a salient need to address transgender issues and help ci sgender persons understand the complexity of life beyond binarity.
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