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cardamom · 1490 days ago · link · · parent · post: The Royal Spanish Academy added the gender-neutral pronoun "elle" to its Word Observatory, paving the way for later addition to the official dictionary
Kind of like "it", yes. It is rude because it is used for objects or concepts, not living things, so it is kind of dehumanizing. That said, I don't know people who identify themselves as gender neutral so I don't know how they want others to address them.