Many, but not all languages, employ grammatical gender. Anyone who has studied Spanish or German will know that grammatical gender is essential and can be unrelated to biological sex. For example, el ...

A movement to make Spanish grammar less centered on male terms has gained broad adherence, including from President Alberto Fernández. By Daniel Politi BUENOS AIRES — Three days into Argentina’s ...

In contrast, grammatical gender languages are languages like French, Spanish, Russian, or Hebrew that assign all nouns into a grammatical category of masculine, feminine, or, in some cases, neuter. In ...

The victory of Kim de l’Horizon, a nonbinary writer, in a top literary prize stirred a debate about how the German language can accommodate people who don’t identify as male or female. By Thomas ...

France banned the use and teaching of gender-neutral grammar in schools as part of an effort to push back on social revisionism. The push for gender-neutral words is “harmful to the practice and ...

When the United Nations introduced guidelines with gender-inclusive strategies for six major languages, not everyone was keen to jump on the bandwagon. Some felt the changes altered the symmetry of ...