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Stardust by Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess

A Wrinkle in Time

The Tombs of Atuan

Affectional orientation, informally called romantic orientation, indicates which gender or sex with which a person is most likely to have emotional intimacy.

emotional intimacy between partners does not require sexual attraction

gender-blind

gender and sex are insignificant or irrelevant

The concept of pansexuality rejects the gender binary

Historically, there were two gender-neutral pronouns native to English dialects, ou and a.

yo has come to be used as a gender-neutral pronoun

Since at least the 15th century, they (used with verbs conjugated in the plural, as with you), them, their, theirs, and themselves or themself have been used, in an increasingly accepted fashion, as singular pronouns. This usage is often called the singular they. It is widely used and accepted in Britain, Australia, and North America in conversation.

eliminating the need for definite genders in such a society

modeling equal roles for mothers and fathers in the household

individual differences schema, where children learn to process information on a person-by-person basis rather than make wide assumptions about groups based on information from individuals

society should decrease the use of the gender dichotomy

policies, language, and other social institutions should avoid distinguishing roles according to people's sex or gender, in order to avoid discrimination arising from the impression that there are social roles for which one gender is more suited than the other

eliminate gender distinctions

gender neutrality in the law has changed the nature of custody disputes