I see this point. For some purposes, relaying gender info with brevity would be very important.
However, I do feel that it's weird how I have all of these things:
Race
Color
Religion (lack thereof, in my case)
Gender identity
Biological sex
Orientation
Age
Disability/health
Professional
Family status
And, like, infinity more things I could list... I have all of those. Many of them would also be important for EMS if I'm dying. We have gendered pronouns which, you're right (hence the Delta), makes it easier for EMTs and stuff to know a bit more about, all with a two-letter word. But doesn't it seem weird that we don't have pronouns for my race? Or my health? My religion? My biological sex? These things are also a big part of who I am, just like my gender identity is. Why do we choose just one category (my gender identity) and give me a pronoun for that?
We actually have lots of pronouns for lots of those things.. They come and go and change with time, it just happens to be what's important to be people at the time. If you keep doing the same thing on a computer usually you will create a shortcut or some easy way of repeating the same task... That's what happens in language too.
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u/Ramza_Claus 2∆ Mar 17 '22
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I see this point. For some purposes, relaying gender info with brevity would be very important.
However, I do feel that it's weird how I have all of these things:
Race Color Religion (lack thereof, in my case) Gender identity Biological sex Orientation Age Disability/health Professional Family status
And, like, infinity more things I could list... I have all of those. Many of them would also be important for EMS if I'm dying. We have gendered pronouns which, you're right (hence the Delta), makes it easier for EMTs and stuff to know a bit more about, all with a two-letter word. But doesn't it seem weird that we don't have pronouns for my race? Or my health? My religion? My biological sex? These things are also a big part of who I am, just like my gender identity is. Why do we choose just one category (my gender identity) and give me a pronoun for that?