They Is More Than One

Today I was really confused reading an article in the New York Times about a female runner who won a race and identifies as non-binary. From start to finish, the article referred to her as they, as in "they went to school" and "they started running when their coach told them they were good," etc. Who are they, I wondered. Turns out it was just her.

"People whose gender is not male or female use many different terms to describe themselves, with nonbinary being one of the most common sometimes spelled with a hyphen, as “non-binary”.

The utter nonsense above is quoted from a website, one of dozens, about transgenders. Mostly, when it comes to their genitalia, they are nutty. 

What makes me say that is the infuriating insistence on referring to themselves as they, even when they are not a they but a he or a she, or maybe an it. Whatever, there are not two of them just because they sometimes feel more like a man and other times maybe more like a woman. Why not call it mood swings and leave it at that?

Biologically speaking, one is either male or female. Individuals born with the two types of gonads, either occurring together or alternating, are called hermaphrodites. A hermaphrodite is still just one person! They indicates there are two distinct, separate and unique beings, when there are not.

You can't just change biology or grammar to match your mood. Sorry. Life doesn't work that way. If it did I'd be much thinner.