AOC criticizes Democrats for railing against “Latinx”

[ingemann]

One thing I don’t get about Latinx is why do people say it’s about trans rights? I thought the point of Latinx was to not have “Latino” as the default in cases where the gender is unclear or there is a mixed group of people, which is considered sexist since having the “o” ending as the default implies male superiority over females

Which for the record isn't even the origin of it, it's because Latin had three gendered tenses, male, female and gender neutral, but the gender neutral and male pronunciations ended up merging over time in most derived languages because they were more similar. There do exists languages where the female noun is the default, like Welsh and Swedish.

Pretty sure that Swedish use common/neuter gender like Danish.