This is unfair. "Filipina" has been used since the Spanish occupation, as part of a movement to assert women's rights. Pinoy and Pinay have been used by Filipinos in America to identify themselves. before it was assimilated and used here in the Philippines.

Research is key. https://twitter.com/gfirga/status/1301822151910064128

Pls do your research before speaking on Filipino identity & experience, esp when there is a risk of speaking over Filipinos in diaspora. The debate over Filipinx has been going on for years; discussions on Filipino-ness for longer. Read up, and read well. https://www.cnn.ph/life/culture/2020/6/29/filipinx-gender-neutral.html

Words can be gender-neutral, but politics surrounding it will never be (gender-) neutral, because it is used in a patriarchal context that feeds on colonialism & imperialism. Words evolve. Experiences vary. We respond & resist. Leave room for interrogation, instead of imposition.

(also, the irony of dismissing filipinx as a word while using filo in the same breath. i'm --)