They say that gender non-conforming people, in particular, are caught up on some new fad: that we are inventing language, identities, pronouns, and genders. But language and grammar have always been developed to meet the needs of the society. Consider words like selfie and welp, which have recently been added to the dictionary. This is actually the purpose of language -- to give meaning to concepts as they evolve.
-- Alok Vaid-Menon, Beyond the Gender Binary, p. 38
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