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The statement speaks for itself.

Krankenschwesterinnen

Der Begriff ist eh obsolte, ist nun Krankenpfleger.

I don't know but I wouldn't be surprised if those words are the reason for the * being included on the keyboard in the first place 😅

These laws are only applicable in two of Germany's 16 states and only for state officials and authorities as well as schools. The other states mostly critize those states for infringing on equality rights. It just bans the use of gender related punctuations in written documents and school exams. It's not well thought out.

You can still use gender neutral terms (Lehrende instead of Lehrer*innen). It's a big deal as those states do it to cater to right-wing voters and fish them from the nazi-party AFD.

Btw Binnen-I is LehrerInnen. Other gender neutral notations are a "*", "_" or ":"

@whydudothatdrcrane There are only two relevant parties who are against gender neutrality: The Nazis from AfD and CxU. I also don*t like the Binnen-I and use an browser extension to fix that for me.

Krankenschwester is already female the offical Job name is Krankenpflegefachkraft (which is already neutral).

In german or french It is mostly because the female version is just the male one with an extra ending. I.e. händler / händlerin English would have something similar but the male as default is just the now. You dont say actress but actor

I think that would be a history/etymology lesson going all the way back to Latin. I haven't studied Latin, but I think there used to be a lot more grammatical genders, but they were gradually merged into one another in languages with a Latin heritage.

Why the neutral gender got merged into masculine and not feminine is a good question. Maybe it was just because they were the most similar.

In French the masculine and neutral gender collapsed. That's why masculine is a default. All neutral pronouns merged with the masculine due to sound shifts.

I speak Italian, which works similarly to French. The male form is called the "non-marked" form, while the female is "marked". It means that if you use the female form, you're actually talking about women, otherwise it may be anyone. So, the real inclusive form would be to just use the male form.

It's because both Italian and French come from Latin. Latin used to have three forms: male, female and neutral. The neutral and male form were very similar, so during the evolution from Latin to modern languages, the two forms collapsed into one.

In Dutch a door is female. Chair? Male.

Thanks, you're correct. I was mixing that up with Latin and Greek. Dunno if Spanish and other romance languages have it too.

The German thing is a bit different. It's kind of like if English didn't have "they" as a neutral alternative, so people use "**e" as way to mean neither "he" nor "she".

That's fine in writing, but it looks pretty weird, doesn't work well in other forms, and you get things like "e gives the ball to h". It also really doesn't work outside the written word, because how do you pronounce that?

And I do understand that you don't want the female form to be the neutral form. If youre genderneutral, it probably feels weird to be constantly adressed as a woman.

Would be interesting to know what's your native language, to get an idea of what evolutions are possible.

Because surely someone with such a stark opinion on the matters speaks a gendered language natively, right?

Bavaria is like Texas. You have Munich and a few other cities that are progressive and vote even green (so, Austin) , and the rest is cowboys and farmers.

Mostly Populists like Söder of CSU.

It denotes all genders not only male and female by using the asterisk as a wildcard for everything that could be in between the ends of the spectrum from male (Kassierer) to female (Kassiererin).