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The term "latinx" appears to not have originate from US whites. All articles that really dug into the origin of the term generally conclude that it originated from US English-speaking Latin American LGBTQ communities. While the exact origin isn't known, there has been some who have argued that the term is derived from Latin American feminist protests who frequently would put a large X over the OS in the word Latinos as to "visually… reject the notion that the default is the masculine." In published literature the first known use of latinx was in a Puerto Rican psychological periodical that challenged the gender binaries encoded in the Spanish language.

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GreyOmega said:
The term "latinx" appears to not have originate from US whites. All articles that really dug into the origin of the term generally conclude that it originated from US English-speaking Latin American LGBTQ communities. While the exact origin isn't known, there has been some who have argued that the term is derived from Latin American feminist protests who frequently would put a large X over the OS in the word Latinos as to "visually… reject the notion that the default is the masculine." In published literature the first known use of latinx was in a Puerto Rican psychological periodical that challenged the gender binaries encoded in the Spanish language.

I was just thinking about how to say this. You saved me a lot of time.

I do get that the term is controversial, but there seems to be this misconception that everyone in those groups is against the term, when most seem indifferent to it. Some of them do use the term themselves, even if they're only a minority. Are their opinions invalid?

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