A failing attempt to gender-neutralize a social group & their language that is entirely based on gender. Even inanimate objects have genders. The term is used almost entirely by non-Hispanics lol.
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About One-in-Four U.S. Hispanics Have Heard of Latinx, but Just 3% Use It
The term Latinx has emerged in recent years as a gender-neutral alternative to the pan-ethnic terms Latino, Latina and Hispanic. However, awareness of Latinx is relatively low among the population it is meant to describe.
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