Filipinx: ‘Filipinx’ was created to be a gender-neutral alternative for ‘Filipino’ or ‘Filipina’, most commonly used in the United States to reject the normative gender binary
Why create a diversion between Filipinos? Filipino vs Filipinx
-	As a sign of safety and comfort
Controversy According to my understanding, the word filipinx is not very Filipino, because it came or was inspired by other countries such as Latinx to present gender-neutral—more like American-Filipino.
Another thing is that the word itself, “Filipino”, is gender-neutral already, according to the article by John Toledo in Rappler PH, this was his words, “To legitimize Filipinx as gender-neutral is to efface and silence Filipino as gender-neutral.” According also to this article where the author encounter a facebook post that says, we should not act like purists in a country crazed by the conflict between national and regional languages, a country where some think calling Filipino a language is problematic because it’s really just Manila Tagalog.
One of the comments regarding the use of filipinx in reddit are the following:
“It do sound like pornsite talaga to me” – said by coquettishchild
“It reeks of an attempt by outsiders to impose an unnecessary change that no one asked for, to a culture they don't really understand.” – said by DocNightfall
”Honestly speaking, it’s completely unnecessary and sounds so stupid. I’m a Filipino, my male friend is a Filipino, my gay cousin is a Filipino, my lesbian friend is a Filipino, we’re all friggin Filipinos. No need to create a different term just so you could feel special.” – Cleigne143

In my personal opinion I agree to the crowd that usage of filipinx is not necessary because we are already gender-neutral language, but it is also true that we Filipinos are not really adapting to this gender-neutrality due to the fact that many of us are still homophobic as we are very loyal when it comes to religion. Still Filipino is used to symbolize unity as we filipino already faces many problems, this gender-neutrality should not hinder us or be a reason of our diversion.
Conclusion: Our Gender and sex tie us down to what society expects us to do. Maybe that’s why the LGBTQ community keeps creating their own words to create their own worlds because society itself doesn’t consider them, they feel that they don’t belong to this society where men and women only exist.
The importance of gender and sex is to know our identity, ourselves, and how can we contribute to the world.
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