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In English, we use he and him to refer to males, she and her to refer to females. What about people who don't quite fit in those classifications for whatever reason? Should we add new pronouns like Hesha and hirm?
I don't think so I think all the dividing and categorizing of people isn't helpful or inclusive. It doesn't make sense to divide everyone just to include them why not just include them to begin with. If anything we should get rid of gender specific pronouns and not worry about this problem thats not a problem anymore.
That's not a very strong argument. I know people that are... "confused," they say they feel like the other gender and then sometimes represent themselves that way and sometimes the other, I don't feel like it's my job to guess which pronoun they are "feeling like" on any given day. For better or worse our culture has evolved with binary gender terminology, I will do what I can to not blatantly offend someone but I'm not going to try to guess what they want to be called if they're wearing a dress and have a beard.
I think this whole transgender issue is going to cause a cultural rift in the next 10-20 years and it's going to be interesting to see how it plays out, I just wish I could watch it from the sideline and not be on the field while it's happening.