This article examines how seven transgender South Carolinians drew on racialized conceptions of linguistic ownership during metalinguistic discussion about queer and trans language during ethnographi...

Supporting families of trans youth nationwide through the logistical and financial burdens of navigating bans on gender-affirming care.

The U.S. has never had an official language, though many states have designated English.

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Why are they/them pronouns easier for some people to use? The answer can tell us a lot about the English language, and how it is changing.

The following is a list of research on trans people’s use of pronouns in English and a few other languages where scholars have written about trans and gender-neutral pronoun innovations. Lang…

Theoretical linguistics is not necessarily a space that excludes queer linguists outright — hell, we named our LGBTQ Linguistics award after Arnold Zwicky, a prolific syntactician (among othe…

With nonbinary and trans identities becoming more mainstream, pronouns have increasingly become a hot topic — particularly singular “they,” which is favored by many nonbinary people. While singu...

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Singular they as a gender-neutral pronoun has a long history in English, and it continues to evolve, having recently grown in use as a definite pronoun and as