the people who try to use the RAE to stop gender neutral terms just baffle me

like, do they think the RAE are language kings? that they dictate how we're supposed to speak? it's the other way around. The RAE documents how we speak, we don't speak how the RAE documents. They're fighting back against things they don't like, but if we ignore them and speak like that anyway they'll concede. It has always happened

English governance over the past half-millennium is legendarily horrific, but I genuinely love the English language itself. A vibrant living language whose most revered poet, the Bard himself, is universally praised for his skill in inventing new words for new concepts. A language that has no top-down bureaucracy prescribing what words to use and when, but instead has its closest equivalent in the OED - an organization which celebrates neologisms and only acts to catalogue the words already in common use. A language that cheerfully borrows vocabulary from every other language on the planet regardless of race, culture, or creed. There is nothing pure about the English language - it is a mutt, a mongrel, a mishmash of a language - but that flexibility in wordplay enables great art.

I don't speak Spanish, but I do dabble in learning it occasionally, when I have time. But I've found it super useful for certain things. I dated a nonbinary guy a while back, and while he did use he/him pronouns, he was very uncomfortable with the term "boyfriend," and girlfriend didn't fit either. We settled on novie. Neither of us speak Spanish, but it just fit way better.

It made both of us very happy to piss off conservatives in two languages.

That's so 2005

No binario. Maybe "no binarie" too, i'm not sure if i've ever heard it but it wouldn't surprise me.

Generally the masculine gender is used when the gender of a subject isn't clear, or if the subjects are mixed. (niño=boy, niña=girl, los niños could be a group of boys or a group of children including both genders)

Latin, which Spanish is heavily related to, had another gender - neuter. That would've been cool to keep around. Well technically there is a neuter in Spanish, but not with nouns.

Disclaimer: am not fluent in Spanish

"Persona" (person) is feminine so the phrase: "Persona no binaria" is neutral, I'm serious.

"Genero no binario" cuz the word genero (gender) is masculine