Gender-Expansive Options in More Languages
Note that the Lior interviewed here is not Lior Gross, co-facilitator of The Nonbinary Hebrew Project
Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Irish, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai
Fil Corbitt's Podcast on "How gender neutral language is working for non-binary people, and how it’s developing in English, Tagalog, Vietnamese, Portuguese and Hebrew"
(we ARE interviewed here)
WALS Project, 44A: Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns
Taylor Roberts-Sampson's thesis
"A Cross-Linguistic Analysis of
Gender Neutral and Gender Inclusive Language"
Yiddish
If you are interested in trans & nonbinary terminology in Yiddish, check out this post!
Arabic
"Resisting the idea that sex influences gender and thereby influences sexuality was impossible for me; rejecting gender as a social construct was not an option. Imagining, then, an existence beyond the gender binary was not even feasible. How could I be something I didn’t have words for? How can I be something I can’t articulate? " From "They/them in Arabic: Stories from the Outside" by Khaled Alqahtani
In Spanish... use elle/les!
If you are interested in amazing efforts to use gender-expansive language in Spanish, check out this article...
...and this bilingual story book for kids about using nonbinary pronouns!
and this article
and this wikipedia article (in Spanish) about the pronoun elle
and this article about elle (in English):
and this article about feminist translators in Argentina
