My knee jerk reaction is I didn’t like the term. I favor using someone’s country, or Latin Americans, sometimes I use Hispanic, but rarely.
@Demosthenes Probably most Americans don’t know Latinos would include male and female. Plus, a lot of Americans seem to be incensed at the idea than “men” can mean all people, as in all men are created equal, so there is probably especially a reluctance among the people who try to find these politically correct words to use the masculine to mean everyone.
@janbb I guess. I don’t hear them that much, but I can’t say I have never used the words being used. I especially think there is no need for LatinX if people use Latinas and Latinos.
Are Latin Americans on board with it? I can’t imagine my husband saying or writing he is LatinX, or his parents are LatinX. Is it just used to describe the community as a whole? Shorter than saying the Latin American community? Did they, whoever they is, decide that Hispanic is not a nice word now and so they moved on to this new one?