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-This page is fake. Portuguese, French and Spanish are gendered languages. Entire new languages would need to be created to change that which translates in culture loss. I am sorry but this page is fake and probably computer generated.
+{{Template:Gender neutral language}}
+[[File:ParentsFloat2009MarchaDF.JPG|thumb|Parents of Gays float at the 2009 Marcha Gay in Mexico City. The banner shows the @ symbol substituted for the masculine "o" or feminine "a" to make it gender neutral.]]
+'''Gender neutral language in Spanish''' is more difficult than [[gender neutral language]] (also called gender inclusive language) in some other languages, because its grammatical gender is pervasive, and it has no true neutral grammatical gender, at least not in standard usage. See the main article on [[gender neutral language]] for general reasons to use neutral language, common problems in using it, and its use for [[nonbinary]] people.
+Spanish has two grammatical genders, masculine and feminine. Like other Romance languages, it's very difficult to talk about a person in a gender-neutral way. This is because every adjective, noun, and article are all either masculine or feminine. It's difficult or even impossible to be completely gender-neutral in standard Spanish. However, feminists, LGBT people, and other activists today have made ideas for how to speak Spanish in a gender-neutral way when necessary. For example, it's now common for people to write "Latinx," "Latine" or "Latin@" as a gender-inclusive version of "Latino" and "Latina". For more information, see [[Wikipedia:Gender neutrality in Spanish and Portuguese|Wikipedia's article: Gender neutrality in Spanish and Portuguese]].
+(Example)//
+• They/he/she
+I guess if they're cool with it.
+• Em/him/her
+Let's tell em then.
+• Theirs/his/hers
+Hey it's theirs.
+• Pers/his/her
+That's pers.
+• Perself/himself/herself
+They will do it perself.
+*Spanish*
+• Elle/he/she
+Elle ya sabe. (They already know)
+• Elle/him/her
+Es elle. (That's em)
+• Elle's/pers
+Eso es de elle. (That's pers)
+• Sí misme/Elle misme/himself/herself (even the "self" suffix is gender polarized in Spanish: "Sí mismo/Sí misma or Él mismo/ Ella misma).
+Preparó el café para sí misme. (Made that coffee to perself)
+Elle misme se hizo eso. (They did that to perself)
+Other Ideas
+• Le/La/El
+Le Joven
+• Bonite/Bonita/Bonito
+Elle es bonite por dentro y por fuera. (They're pretty both out and inside).
+• Hermose/Hermosa/Hermoso
+Qué hermose eres (You are so handosme)
+• Linde/Linda/Lindo
+Tan linde que quiero llorar. (So cute that I'm going to cry).
+• Guape/Guapa/Guapo
+Hoy está muy guape. (They look handsome today)
+•Liste/Lista/Listo.
+Es demasiado liste para su propio bien. (They're too smart to be good to perself)
+• Both "o" and "a" at the end of the words it's what let you know the specific gender for that case. In order to take gender out of the language, those vocals are replaced either by "e", "x" or "@". With time pass, the "e" solution has become the mainstream way to say it, because it's the only of those options that can be actually used whilst speaking.
+•There are some neutral-gender pronouns in Spanish that were not made for non-gendering speaking (as it's the "e" solution above), and can be pretty useful in various situations.
+•There's also a common mistake among spanish speakers on the use of "la" or "lo" as the article for indirect complement, which shall be "le", the neutral one. This mistake is a consequence of the use of those articles for the direct object.
+•"Suyo". Means both his and hers.
+Ese muñeco es suyo. (That toy is theirs)
 == Letter substitution ==