In any case, there already is good queer fiction pushing boundaries being published. Making it harder to talk openly about queerness will only make it harder to publish good queer fiction.
]]>Point remains: we DO have one. It's rather famous at this point what with the M-W "word of the year" thing, and not to mention the many thinkpieces stretching back years now.
]]>It is quite often that people in no position to have to care prefer not to be reminded that they are uncaringly hurting others except perhaps in the subtlest of ways. You are not unusual in that regard. It is also not unusual that people dealing with the pointy end of the problem prefer to be more vocal than that.
]]>Or don't. Regardless, singular they exists, has been in use and increasing popularity for years now, and people who built a language translation engine should probably know about these sorts of things even if you personally don't.
]]>I also quite liked it about Ann Leckie's books that everyone is "she" regardless of gender or genitalia.
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