May the force be with they/them.
Disney’s new Star Wars series Tales of the Empire uses “they/them” pronouns to refer to a gender-ambiguous character that appears in the Disney+ animated show’s fifth episode.
In the scene in question, the character Barriss Offee engages in a light-saber duel with an unnamed Jedi whose gender appears to be ambiguous. The scene makes no mention of gender identity or pronouns during the fight. But once the unnamed Jedi is slain by a third warrior, the remaining two character begin referring to the dead Jedi using “they” and “them.”
The Star Wars YouTuber known as the Knights of Melvin has a breakdown of the scene, counting a total of five times that “they/them” pronouns are used in the
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