Talk:Gender neutrality

Bluntly speaking
this is all made up hocus pocus, and in reality is a chemical imbalance in the brain of the afflicted individual. I believe that in the future we may even be able to cure people and provide them a rich happy life free from discrimination. Even children born to gay couples tend not to follow in their parent's identities and instead become normal at best, and broken at worst. The worst part is when parents give their kid a sex change cause the kid thinks it's a girl/boy/Mx. Imo that is going a step too far.Children when given gender binary toys will play with the ones suited to their gender in most situations.Pawn0 o (talk) 22:16, 15 August 2016 (UTC)

Gender blind
I think that we need to make sure that we distinguish the term gender neutrality from the term gender blind. A gender blind person is a person who does not associate differences of gender other than biological definitions. Gender neutrality is the movement towards making things in society and culture non gender discriminative. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.145.139.28 (talk) 19:45, 30 November 2012 (UTC)

I respectfully recommend that the author of this page read at least the first two chapters of "Why Gender Matters" by Dr. Lenoard Sax, M.D., Ph.D. I appreciate the value in offering opportunities to females as well as males, but the gender differences must be addressed.

Would appreciate more inclusion regarding representation on who is affected by gender neutrality
It's very difficult to write about gender neutrality as objectively as possible but this does a good job. Wondering if there could be more inclusion on how gender neutrality allows more folks, especially queer children and children of immigrants, to feel included.Laurenahn (talk) 23:07, 19 February 2017 (UTC)

Dangers and Repercussions
Although this article makes it abundantly clear that there are nothing but advantages to Gender Neutrality, for an unbiased approach, this article should also include a section on drawbacks and the negative repercussions, also the potential dangers of this trend. If this is to be a neutral, encyclopedic, approach to the topic, bias in favor, nor bias against, should be favored in this, and all other Wikipedia topics. The article is definitely "on the bandwagon." Let's end this farce. We're being biased here, and altogether the article is cheering on this trend of Gender Neutrality. Yes, it's a trend, and yes there are obvious advantages, which are already made very, abundantly clear in the current state of the article. Again, we aren't here to slant topics one way or the other, and just looking at half of the other talk topics that precede this one, there is definitely room for a section on the drawbacks of Gender Neutrality. For every Pro, there must be a Con. Nothing is that perfect, and one reading this article will easily be mislead into thinking that Gender Neutrality is the solution to any of the world's problems that we will ever have. Which is utterly not plausible. There are other issues involved and there is room for improvement in this topic as it currently stands in the presentation that Wikipedia has laid out. Gender Neutrality is an article that has no neutrality in itself, as of yet. B'H. MichaelAngelo7777  (talk) 07:15, 31 August 2017 (UTC)

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Swedish addition not really official
"In 2012, a gender-neutral pronoun 'hen' was proposed in Sweden. Swedish was the first language to officially add a third neutral pronoun." The reference, however, states: "In July 2014, it was announced that hen should be included in 2015th edition of The Swedish Academy Glossary (SAOL) constituting the (unofficial) norm of the Swedish language". If this is the addition alluded to, it seems erroneous to describe it as official when it's explicitly stated to be unofficial. I've modified the text accordingly. –Roy McCoy (talk) 00:33, 3 September 2019 (UTC)

Lock request.
Most edits seem to be offensive vandalism. I request an extended confirmed lock on the page. ESBirdnerd (talk) 19:35, 24 April 2021 (UTC)

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— Preceding unsigned comment added by ACHorwitz (talk • contribs) 18:33, 11 March 2022 (UTC)

"Neutral" is not taxonomic and it can only describe semantics (as being denotative rather than connotative)
"You" is not characterised as "case neutral" or put as "tense neutral" and "aspect neutral". "Gender neutral" goes beyond describing language, e. g., "common gender" and "unmarked for gender". As a prescriptive, the phrase has no place in discussion of linguistic or grammatical taxonomy and should be replaced with the orthogonal phrases cited above. 185.205.225.132 (talk) 11:39, 1 June 2023 (UTC)


 * I have no idea what change to the article you are proposing or even whether you are proposing a change at all. If you want to make a suggestion then please try proposing it in the form "Change X to Y" so we can understand what, if anything, you are proposing. DanielRigal (talk) 11:43, 1 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Perhaps a statement disavowing that the phrase can be descriptive, and distinguishing it from common (natural) gender (e. g., deer as opposed to stag/doe) and unmarked for gender (e. g., first- and second-person English pronouns), from the prescriptive, "gender neutral". 185.205.225.132 (talk) 11:57, 1 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Please try to say what you want in terms that can be understood using the form "Change X to Y". DanielRigal (talk) 12:03, 1 June 2023 (UTC)