Gender neutralization

In line with the way the data are organized and the thematic analysis put forward in section 1.3.5, the present chapter is devoted to Russian and Czech nonbinary linguistic practices which rely on elements and features of the standard variety, which do not have a gender index. On that account, they are set to neutralize the linguistic gender binary. The practices are categorized as a means of gender neutralization (of the standard variety) because all efforts revolve around the question as to how nonbinary speakers can effectively work around the gender binary, allowing for nonbinary linguistic identity construction.