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...Do parents have gender-neutral pronouns?
aside from you know... "parent"
Is that it? That's all we have?
Sometimes my kids call me by my first name trying to get a reaction out of me, but I don't care. That should work. I don't think "mom" and "dad" are even pronouns, are they? Proper nouns in the direct context ("Hey Dad, how was your day?") and regular nouns in the common context ("My mom said to tell you hi."), so I'm not sure this is a thing.
We used "momdad" when we just needed one of them.
Parental Units.
One of my irritations is that we do not have good language to talk about non-binary people.
For example, instead of a brother or sister, you talk about a "sibling". It just sounds so impersonal. Instead of saying something that shows your love for a family member while acknowledging the fact that the person does not cleanly fit into either of the gender boxes, it sounds like gender erasure. Like the person is too concerned with social pressure to refer to their relative by an incorrect gender but too proud to use the correct gender. Or maybe it is similar to a gay person talking about his "partner" to leave a little bit of ambiguity about his sexuality.
I am not saying that people should hide their gender identity, just that the English speaking community needs to find better terminology to use when talking about them.
My sister and I occasionally refer to each other as "sibling" using conehead voices.
The term kin can work, sure you will sound like a hick but who cares.
I do use "kin" sometimes, but I don't think I would in a parental context. Interesting, though. Maybe it's just me that thinks of "kin" as being a gender non-conforming form of "brethren". Usually I use the word in a collective sense, too, as in, "All my homies love and support their trans kin."
What for? If it's plural you can use "parents" just fine, and if you're referring to one of them, you can always use "my dad" or "mom".
I guess it could be useful to have something equivalent to "my parent" that is gender neutral and it doesn't sound as dry. But then again it doesn't allow you to differentiate which one you're talking about. I've seen people with gay parents use "dad" and "papa" or something along those lines, which solves that problem but isn't gender neutral.
Language evolves to serve a purpose or solve a problem, and I guess we haven't had this linguistic challenge before.
(Leaving aside that these are technically not pronouns, but I don't think that's the point of the conversation and we don't gain much by debating grammar)
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Nah, but yeah tho.
I would like to note that while rare non-binary and intersex parents do exist and might not want to be called mum/dad however there is not really a nice gender neutral alternative to my knowledge.
I live in bilingual are and a lot of kids use mom or dad from different language if parents are bilingual. For example other is dad and other papa