Gender Revolution: Trans Identities, Spectra, and Pronouns

I'm sure that many of us have heard of Gender Revolution: A Journey with Katie Couric. The entire documentary is available for free here (movie night??), but a teaser trailer came up on my Facebook feed that I thought was particularly poignant. Katie was sitting down with a group of Yale students in a LGBT student group and they were teaching her about gender pronouns. One student, Matthew, used they/them/theirs and Katie asked them about what it meant to use those pronouns. They responded by saying:

"People are always saying 'Oh, but they is a plural pronoun, how could I refer to a single person that way,' but in my head I think, 'Well, I am plural.'"

I thought that this was an interesting way of conceptualizing the various spectra that we talked about in class on Monday.