I see your point, but I think one has to take the context of the conversation into account too. In a social situation involving a transgender person, it's considered polite to use pronouns that won't exacerbate any…
I understand the point you are making, but I feel that using a female pronoun while discussing Thomas being male would have been the more jarring linguistic choice, given the subject.
That's all very well in theory, but what classes would you use to replace sex in practice? For example, in a recent women's swimming competition, Lia Thomas, who is male, was permitted to compete on the basis of his…
I see your point, but I think one has to take the context of the conversation into account too. In a social situation involving a transgender person, it's considered polite to use pronouns that won't exacerbate any…
I understand the point you are making, but I feel that using a female pronoun while discussing Thomas being male would have been the more jarring linguistic choice, given the subject.
That's all very well in theory, but what classes would you use to replace sex in practice? For example, in a recent women's swimming competition, Lia Thomas, who is male, was permitted to compete on the basis of his…