I've just been reading the following ABC news clip and sixty years of learning English grammar went straight down the toilet: "When Captain Jesse Noble realised they were gender diverse, it 'was kind of like getting hit in the face with a truck'. 'I really associate with both genders', Captain Noble said. At 35 years old, they had spent their entire life in the Pentecostal Church. They were married with kids and a captain in the Australian Army. Their life seemed completely at odds with a genuine expression of their gender identity."
I kept scrolling through this article looking for the rest of "them", but all I could find was Jesse Noble themselves who's a captain in Darwin's First Combat Signals Regiment. I felt like getting hit in the face with a truck.
I seem to remember when all this "gender confusion" started, we used pronouns such his/her and s/he which weren't very elegant but at least not as confusing as "They is a gender diverse person" which sounds terrible ungrammatical. If Captain Jesse Noble wants to wear a gender-defining dress, why doesn't s/he also accept a gender-defining pronoun?
