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This is a good example of why the singular "they" is the stupidest thing when the subject is known.
When It says:
"Ianna allegedly had minors come to their apartment to take hormones and puberty blockers"
It introduces strong and needless ambiguity that makes it sound like the apartment is owned by both Ianna and the minors.
It even goes on to say "apparently without their parent's knowledge or consent." Is that referring to the minor's parents, or Ianna's?
In this case, most people can read through it and ultimately understand, but it still takes a pause. But sometimes, it makes the text very, very confusing.
The same thing happened in the British Columbia Human Rights Commission's 30k penalty to a restaurant who wouldn't use a non-binary's pronouns.
The judge's own written ruling talked about a conflict between the bar manager and the plaintiff, and wrote "they" got fired.
It wasn't at all clear at first whether the bar manager was also fired as a result of the conflict and mostly had to be inferred, all because this dumb bitch insists on going by "they".
Exactly. And there is a ton of ambiguity introduced with pronouns in general, but that doesn't mean we should add to it.
And, what's worse, is that it seems the people who insist on using a singular "they" when the subject is known don't consider the ambiguity like we all naturally do with the correct pronouns.
Unless there was something prior that clarifies who the main subject is, nobody would say "Jack and John were walking and he tripped." They would say "Jack and John were walking and Jack tripped."
But it seems with the "they" non-sense, that goes out the window. You'll see people openly saying "Jack and John were walking and they tripped," not caring that it could mean any of three different things.
And the worst part is that their improper usage means my correct usage will eventually be ambiguous. Even though I would never use "they" that way, I will have to superfluously say "Jack and John were walking and they both tripped" to ensure the audience I'm not using "they" retardedly.