punsbulletsandpointythings:

thebisexualmandalorian:

pattroughton:

“I don’t care how genetically superior you are,” [Etain] said loudly. “Go to bed like good boys.”

Mereel laughed. Ordo just looked uncomfortable. “Yes, Buir,” Mereel said. It was the same word for “mother” or “father.” Mando’a didn’t bother with gender. “We’ll brush our teeth, too.”

—Republic Commando: True Colors by Karen Traviss

!!!!!

(But this also means every single Mandalorian couple with children is going to end up with that same sex parents problem of “okay, if I’m buir, and you’re buir, which one does the kid want now?”)

The fact that Mando’a is inherently a gender-neutral language makes me happy on a daily basis.

Think about it tho

it’s the same with ‘vod’ – brother, sister, sibling.

There are prefixes to indicate specific gender, but generally you just use the neutral form.

Basically, what I’m trying to get at here is non-binary and trans clones in the GAR, and all the clones very actively using only the neutral forms of words like vod, on the one hand to avoid misgendering a sibling, but also to protect them from the Kaminoans, who I can’t imagine would have been all to accepting, and also from their Jedi, should they turn out to be a transphobic douche-canoe.