[Ads-l] non-binary

[Ben Zimmer]

See the Winter 2014 installment of "Among the New Words" (AmSp 89.4), which
includes an entry on "non-binary" in the relevant sense with examples back
to 2000 (pp. 486-8):

https://bit.ly/ATNW89-4

And check out the press release announcing singular "they" as the ADS's
choice for WOTY in 2015, which prominently uses "non-binary":

https://www.americandialect.org/2015-word-of-the-year-is-singular-they

--Ben

On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 3:19 PM, James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
wrote:

> from an email from Equality PAC
> "Piers Morgan just attacked non-binary people on live television"
> "Being gender-fluid is damaging to society  --- Piers Morgan"
> "Non-binary children are a contagion --- Piers Morgan"
>
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