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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
I knew of the Latino and Latina gender description, but never heard of Latinx before. I just assumed that Spanish was like French where the plural for mixed gender defaults to the masculine.
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It does, as in French, but in some circles it's considered representative of a historic patriarchy. It's not uncommon in French for instance to hear someone say "elles et ils" these days. Some people have taken to the term "lantinx" for the same reasons.