Harvard adds alternative gender pronouns

Harvard adds alternative gender pronouns

CAMBRIDGE — Starting this school year, students at Harvard's Faculty of Arts & Sciences will be allowed to select their gender and choose their own pronouns.

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences, in which more than half of Harvard undergraduates are enrolled, will allow students to select from genders, including "male," "female," "transgender," and other write-in options, according to the Harvard Crimson. They can then select traditional pronouns or "ze, hir, hirs" and "they, them, theirs."

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Jewish News Service

Written by Cindy Sher/JNS.org

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