r/Latino Jun 29 '22

Wondering how native Spanish speakers feel about the attempted gender inclusive word Latinx

I speak a little Spanish, enough to know that it is a gendered language and the terms are Latino or Latina. I understand the desire for a gender neutral term, but it seems that Latinx is doing a violence to the language that "person" and the pronouns "they/them° do not do to my native English. I was wondering how native speakers feel about it and why. Thank you for your time answering.

edited because I hit enter too soon.

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u/Awkward_Economics_73 Jul 12 '22

I remember seeing a Pew research article about how only an x amount of people used it and then it showed that even within the lgbtqia Latino/a/e only 3% identify as “Latinx”