"It is crucial that we have these debates, of course. I've witnessed and engaged in heated discussion about the value of 'Latinx,' online and in real life. I appreciate why the gendering of words is problematic. But we are years, decades or even centuries away from dropping the gender binary from the languages we speak. Maybe a future generation will invent a new letter. Or maybe concern over this question will dissipate and another language pretzel will arise.
"In the meantime, I've taken up a different strategy: dropping the suffix altogether.
"That's right. In Spanish I'm still a 'Latino' when need be, because I read to people as male. In English, at the risk of being accused of historic-linguistic colonialism, I've been calling myself 'Latin.' And it feels great."
Daniel Hernandez in the Los Angeles Times makes the "case against 'Latinx.'"
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