a baby raised without the construct of gender, enabling them to choose their own when the time comes
Long before Kyl Myers ever gave birth, she knew she wanted her child to be a theyby.
Submitted from: United Kingdom on 26/04/2018
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Use of the term theyby is a little more complex than a gender-neutral reference. The term baby has never designated gender anyway, so substituting it with theyby appears to be more about challenging conventional perspectives on gender by highlighting gender-neutral they; this pronoun was in fact declared 2016’s ‘word of the year’ by the American Dialect Society.