Word: weseleyan
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...exhausted the capacities of the English language? Wesleyan University has turned to a gender-neutral alternative: “ze.” “Students use it to refer to people who have requested it as their pronoun,” Zach Strassburger, a member of the Weseleyan Trans/Gender Group, wrote in an e-mail. “They are mostly but not entirely students who identify as trans or gender-variant in some way.” The term first gained widespread recognition this fall, when the Trans/Gender Group sent each professor information packets about using...
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