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The fight for a gender-neutral Spanish

Post Reports

The Washington Post

Daily News, Politics, News

4.45.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2019

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Samantha Schmidt talks to the Argentine teens promoting a more inclusive Spanish. And Kevin Sieff reports from a squalid tent city in Matamoros, Mexico, where refugees are forced to wait for their asylum requests to be processed by the United States.

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0:26.4

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0:28.9

This is Post Reports. I'm Martine Powers.

0:34.8

It's Friday, December 6.

0:38.8

Today, I pushed to create a new, genderless form of Spanish and waiting for asylum on the southern border.

0:51.1

So, Natalia Mira, she was 17 years old at the time.

0:54.2

She's a high school student in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and she was demonstrating in front of

0:59.7

her high school in favor of a bill that was set to potentially legalize abortion in Argentina.

1:15.6

So, there's this conservative journalist named Meduardo Faneman who starts interviewing her and

1:21.1

asking her about this abortion protest and immediately starts jumping in and correcting her use

1:27.6

of gender-neutral Spanish.

1:36.0

Saying it's diputados instead of diputades, which is the word for lawmakers that she had set

1:44.1

in a gender-neutral form.

1:44.9

Mira and Collegio mentioned that they were talking about diputados and diputadas.

2:00.7

She started saying that I respect your way of speaking, you should respect mine.

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