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Scenario

Why language barriers complicate gender support across generations

My teenage niece says she is non-binary and wants me to use they/them pronouns but in our language we do not have those concepts and I feel lost.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Linguistic limitations can create distance between family members trying to honor evolving identity within traditional frameworks.

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