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Chicago’s Field Museum Now Insists You Refer To Its T-Rex Skeleton Using Gender Neutral Pronouns

Emily Zanotti

Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History is home to some of the world’s most treasured artifacts — mummies, rare gemstones, the taxidermied corpses of a pair of man-eating lions — and now, one huge, gender-neutral dinosaur skeleton.

According to Arc Digital, “Sue,” Field Museum’s Tyrannosaurus Rex — one of the most complete and largest T-Rex skeletons ever discovered — is working on becoming a “gender neutral” icon by adopting gender-neutral pronouns in her new private exhibit on the museum’s second floor.

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