2.5 stars? this isn’t /bad/, but i didn’t really learn anything. it takes a linguistic/historical approach to the ‘issue’ of gender-neutral pronouns, which makes it seem very detached (not shocking, considering the author is cis.) a lot of things that could’ve been delved into through a trans perspective were not looked at at all, and every mention of transness was very superficial and didn’t add much to the overall analysis of pronouns. i find myself mostly questioning why this book exists. like, what does it do that a trans historian or linguist couldn’t do better? the chronology at the end was the most interesting part, but the writing was overall pretty dry. i can’t think of a situation in which i would recommend this book.