At the beginning of the 2015-16 school year, Harvard University announced that students would be able to choose from a list of gender-neutral pronouns such as "ze,""hir" and "hirs." While advocates cheered this development as progressivism, multiple genders are as old as the ages. In South Asia, for example, hijras -- people whose identity falls outside binary gender divisions -- have existed in society for centuries. (In modern times, at least some of the stigma imposed by British colonialism has been partially reversed, and now Bangladesh, India and Pakistan legally recognize hijras as members of a "third gender.") Similarly, a number of indigenous North American...
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