"they/them" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "etymology_text": "From a common format for specifying gender-neutral pronouns in online profiles.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "them",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "thems",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "them (plural thems)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "LGBT",
          "orig": "en:LGBT",
          "parents": [
            "Sexuality",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Sex",
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Reproduction",
            "Fundamental",
            "Life",
            "Nature"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Non-binary",
          "orig": "en:Non-binary",
          "parents": [
            "Gender",
            "Transgender",
            "Biology",
            "Psychology",
            "Sociology",
            "LGBT",
            "Sciences",
            "Social sciences",
            "Sexuality",
            "All topics",
            "Society",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Sex",
            "Fundamental",
            "Human",
            "Reproduction",
            "Life",
            "Nature"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2023 September 10, Nova Smith, “Baldur's Gate 3 is the first game that met me halfway in roleplaying a they/them causing mayhem, and that feels like the future of RPGs”, in PC Gamer:",
          "text": "I've long used videogames as a means to cope with both my disability and my dysphoria, but Baldur's Gate 3 is the first time I've been able to really get into roleplaying a they/them causing mayhem.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2024 May 1, Emily Gould, quoting Mx. Vanilla, “‘Help! Our DEI Trainer Won’t Stop Talking About Kink’”, in The Cut:",
          "text": "The individual straight cises whom I work with are pretty nice for the most part. Still, people (mostly my boomer coworkers) often misgender other people (mostly the younger they/thems) at my office and bristle when corrected.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2024, Colby Gordon, quoting Folger Shakespeare Library, Glorious Bodies: Trans Theology and Renaissance Literature, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 18:",
          "text": "In case you were wondering, \"Shakespeare's They/Thems\" turned out to be Rosalind and Viola. The Folger talk summons these \"cross-dressed female protagonists\" as evidence that Shakespeare was \"comfortable\" with \"non-binary\" and \"transgender identity\"",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A non-binary person; a person who uses non-binary pronouns."
      ],
      "id": "en-they/them-en-noun-Zp6rZ545",
      "links": [
        [
          "Internet",
          "Internet"
        ],
        [
          "slang",
          "slang"
        ],
        [
          "non-binary",
          "non-binary"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Internet slang, sometimes offensive) A non-binary person; a person who uses non-binary pronouns."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Internet",
        "offensive",
        "sometimes"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "they/them"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "From a common format for specifying gender-neutral pronouns in online profiles.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "them",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "thems",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "them (plural thems)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English internet slang",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English offensive terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:LGBT",
        "en:Non-binary"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2023 September 10, Nova Smith, “Baldur's Gate 3 is the first game that met me halfway in roleplaying a they/them causing mayhem, and that feels like the future of RPGs”, in PC Gamer:",
          "text": "I've long used videogames as a means to cope with both my disability and my dysphoria, but Baldur's Gate 3 is the first time I've been able to really get into roleplaying a they/them causing mayhem.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2024 May 1, Emily Gould, quoting Mx. Vanilla, “‘Help! Our DEI Trainer Won’t Stop Talking About Kink’”, in The Cut:",
          "text": "The individual straight cises whom I work with are pretty nice for the most part. Still, people (mostly my boomer coworkers) often misgender other people (mostly the younger they/thems) at my office and bristle when corrected.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2024, Colby Gordon, quoting Folger Shakespeare Library, Glorious Bodies: Trans Theology and Renaissance Literature, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 18:",
          "text": "In case you were wondering, \"Shakespeare's They/Thems\" turned out to be Rosalind and Viola. The Folger talk summons these \"cross-dressed female protagonists\" as evidence that Shakespeare was \"comfortable\" with \"non-binary\" and \"transgender identity\"",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A non-binary person; a person who uses non-binary pronouns."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Internet",
          "Internet"
        ],
        [
          "slang",
          "slang"
        ],
        [
          "non-binary",
          "non-binary"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Internet slang, sometimes offensive) A non-binary person; a person who uses non-binary pronouns."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Internet",
        "offensive",
        "sometimes"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "they/them"
}