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    MY GENDER ODYSSEY

    Feb 18, 2020 4 minutes
    BY MICHAEL MATSON

    I don’t know much about Sam Smith, other than the out gay singer/songwriter has an exquisite voice, hails from England, and accidentally flubbed an Oscar acceptance speech in front of a billion viewers. Oh, and on September 13, the 27-year-old changed pronouns.

    “I’ve decided I’m changing my pronouns to THEY/THEM. After a lifetime of being at war with my gender I’ve decided to embrace myself for who I am, inside and out,” they wrote in their Twitter feed.

    That weekend, I read a criticism of Smith for choosing these pronouns because they’re “a gay man,” which was seen by the commentator as disrespectful to trans people. At that moment I realized many people,

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