Hen. Three little letters that make up a gender-neutral Swedish pronoun could become a new progressive rallying cry.
The Swedish Academy’s SAOL dictionary is adding “hen” as an official gender-neutral counterpart to the oh-so-restrictive “binary” options “han” (male) and “hon” (female), The Washington Post reported on April 1, 2015. But it was no April Fool’s joke.
Liberals hailed the addition as a sign that the oppressive, old-fashioned society where teachers can address a class as “boys and girls” was crumbling and wanted to know when English would catch up.












