I'm from the Y'all zone. Is it offensive to call trans people y'all?

My boss says “you’ll”

People where I am from call everyone "you guys" - men, women, trans, doesn't matter, everyone is just "you guys" even when it's a woman addressing a group of women.

The literal meaning isn't gender neutral, but in actual practice, it 100% is.

As for "y'all" or "you all", I don't see how it could possibly be interpreted as offensive to any gender.

The literal meaning isn’t gender neutral, but in actual practice, it 100% is.

Unless you can ask a straight man how many guys he's slept with, it isn't gender neutral, no matter how resistant to this fact you are.
"You People" is the one to be avoided
- "howdy fuckers" is the opposite as it sounds bad on paper but in practice it goes over well (except with middle aged moms)
- Yeah I don't see that one going over well anywhere
As for “y’all” or “you all”, I don’t see how it could possibly be interpreted as offensive to any gender.

I think "we don't take kindly to y'all" to a trans person would likely be offensive. Beyond that though, you're probably okay.
- I mean ... Thats just an all out threat with y'all acting as an exclusionary statement.
  
  All in all agree with your point tho.

I'm from "you guys" but I've lived in "y'all" and now I'm forever team "y'all," regardless of where I'm living.

It's the best export from the south, except maybe Texas brisket and pecan pie.

...y'all roughly correlates with coke, although there are some deep pockets of soda-water in the back country...

Maine I think loops back around to y’all territory…

As someone that grew up in y'all territory in Kansas, it's wildly easy to connect to people from Maine!

I mean, neither "you" nor "all" is a gendered term in any way

"y'all" fills a legitimately useful gap the English language has. Other languages have a word like this.

Edit: also something cool I just found out, some languages have a way to disinguish "we" (you and I), and "we" (me and the rest of us, not you). It's called clusivity and is missing from European languages. Many indigenous languages of the Americas and Oceania have this, as well as Vietnamese and northern dialects of Mandarin.

Not a gap in every dialect! "Ye" is another plural second person used in Ireland
- Hear y'all hear y'all, Reggie King from o'er the holler brought pawpaw moonshine for the weddin'
The worst is when a language formally has a disambiguating word but then speakers all just decide to not use it.
Any examples of an equivalent in other languages?

I speak a small amount of French but can't think of one
- "Vous" is the first one that comes to mind in french. But since it is also a more formal (and/or "respectful") version of "tu/toi", it can both designate a group of people or a single person, depending on the context (just like "you" in English). Sometimes people will use "vous tous" (literally "you all") to make this clear.
  
  It is a little better than the "you" situation in English since if you are speaking with someone that is not using the singular form of "vous" to speak about you (which is basically anyone you are familiar with unless they are your boss or In-laws and kind of oldschool), it is instantly clear what they mean at least.
- In Portuguese (especially Brazilian), there are singular and plural forms of "you": "você" (singular) and "vocês" (plural). In English, "you" behaves like a plural because it's followed by "are" instead of "is". The only exception I can see is "yourself" and "yourselves" that refer to both singular and plural forms.
  
  However, In Portuguese, even though we have "vocês" as plural form, we also use "vocês todos" or "todos vocês" ("you all"/"all of you") sometimes.
- Spanish has "Ustedes" (except in Spain, they use "Vosotros/Vosotras")

Y'all is the opposite of offensive for trans people. I lived in the south for a while, and I now use y'all specifically to be inclusive. I wouldn't say "you guys" is offensive to trans women, but I would say for me and likely other trans women it briefly brings to mind being misgendered in the past, so I would call it a small kindness to ube as gender neutral as possible.

Yup, I specifically use y'all and recommend it to people (like my parents) to replace gendered phrases, and I'm not from the y'all zone.

Still up for debate, "dude" and "hun/hon".

*I'm a trans woman also
- As a cis male, I've exclusively been called "Hun / Hon" by waitresses and gay men.
  
  I've not been offended by any of them.
Thanks comrade

Y'all reminds me of the bible belt. I'm not transgender but I am queer and now and then it makes me uncomfortable.

Guess I'll have to ask the person I'm addressing in the future.

Thanks comrade.

We need a better second person plural in English. Y'all works but its a big language gap

Hey...

Folks

Friends

Comrades

Everyone

People

Pals

You motley crew

Weirdos

Siblings

Fuckers

..how you doing, wanna go to the movies?

(this is by no means exhaustive list, the point is there are plenty of existing and perfectly acceptable alternatives, pick one, or more, and get comfortable with it)
I've heard people say "yous" before.
- I know. I hate it. I don't know why

If you live on the line, or move north/west, it's now "you all".

You forgot "Yinz"

Yinz goin aht n abaht in dahntahn Picksburgh to watch da Stillers game?
Yinz is definitely a Scots thing
That's actually "you'uns" and despite being from the deep south I barely ever heard it growing up. Guessing you are from the south too
- Yinz is a Pittsburgh and Pennsyltucky thing

I'm not from the south and use "y'all" all the time. Find it very useful for filling in a gap that English has and slightly faster than saying "you all". Its gender neutral in my opinion.

Never once thought of it as offensive.

Y'all is gender neutral, do so I imagine it's fine

Edit: typo lol
- We're talking about Southern US pronunciation so much that I read your comment from "do I" onwards as if it was being spoken like a Southern Belle.

Yall is the genderless southern hospitality greeting.

No bullshit no hate. Only yall

I've used y'all intentionally as a gender neutral term for years in the south.

Lately I've even seen "y'all means all" used as a pride slogan in the south.
- Awesome! Thanks comrade.

People who don't even live in the USA saying "y'all" is pure pain

Why? I am not living in the us but it's a useful phrase.
I say "all of y'all" and make a point to really emphasize the "'".
- You say "of?"
  
  I thought it was basically all y'all
  
  Or all'o'y'all

I would have thought that “y’all” is even more so gender neutral and therefore less offensive/more accepted. It’s a contraction of “you all” right?

Yeah, I’m in the “you guys” zone and I say y’all, it’s always better received.
Y'all has become my goto nowadays, up in the northeast
- The y'all zone is all zones apparently.

Trust me there are many more areas that say y'all

Where does this put Scott the Woz?

I bought a shirt once in Pittsburgh that says, “Yinz is a gender-neutral p pronoun”

I'm from New Jersey and have never heard anyone unironically say "youse guys". Side note we also don't call it "Joisey".

I always thought youse guys was a new york city thing.
- Youse guys wanna play stickball?

I'll throw in "folks" as another gender neutral option. I say "you folks" all the time, especially in professional contexts. I'm not from the South, but I have family there so y'all is a part of my vocabulary. I use it in more informal situations pretty commonly.

I’m from Australia and I’ve started calling all groups of people yall because it’s gender neutral… very unaustralian term, and I love so much the irony of iconic southern terms being used to support trans activism

I'm German and I use y'all all the time when speaking English. it's funny, most of my English is from the internet so it's the most crazy mix of english
Why bother with importing y'all when we already have yous (or youse depending on how you want to spell it)? Or you could just treat 'you guys' as gender neutral, it effectively is these days with how people use it.
- Youse is too damn bogan for my taste
- As an Australian, why bother importing "y'all" when everyone is already "mate"?
- Do we have yous/youse? According to my understanding that's technically not a real word yet, it's slang.
  
  2nd person singular used to be thou/thee back in the middle ages, but it all eventually melded into you.
  
  I feel like y'all is the newer American version of 2nd person plural, while yous/youse/yinz are the non-American English counterparts.
  
  I have always used you guys in a gender neutral manner historically, but people occasionally got offended by that. So I started using y'all several years ago and it's been going pretty good. Although I did initially spell it like ya'll until someone corrected me on reddit 😅

This needs a line going up the Appalachians for the "You-uns" belt.

And somewhere there's "yinz".
- I was just about to point out that the map is missing a small "yinz" enclave around Pittsburgh/Johnstown

Can "y'all" be singular, since there is "all y'all" for plural?

No, you is the singular; y'all is the plural.

All y'all works because you might say "All of you all", I suppose.
When talking about a group but only one individual of the group is present you can still use y'all.

as a trans person, I'm not offended by y'all in the slightest

This statement has strong Bilbo " I like less than half of you as well as you deserve" energy

(No hate, it just struck me as funny)
- I lowkey always found that to be a southern type of insult, I could hear Steve Spurrier saying it

Should be fine 👍

ITT: Yinzers

Y'all = you all, which is gender neutral.

Also that map is missing the Chicagoland y'all exclave.

Only if you man in it a "you people" kind of way - like y'all need to stay with your own kind- or something like that.

Yous in Scotland is great to wind up Proper English speakers. If they whinge they get a y'all

I call everyone brah 🤙

Is the difference between youse and youse guys the number of people involved? Similar to y'all and all y'all?

Nah you just replace you with youse. Example:

Happy birthday to youse, happy birthday to youse. Happy birthday this fucking guuuuy! Happy birthday to youse!

I’m on the border of y’all and you guys

Your comment gives me the urge to create other maps you can comment on so that I can triangulate your position.
- I am open to the opportunity

Is guys really needed after youse?

The guys is needed where there's no 2.pl pronoun to distinguish from individual you, but youse fixes that

I can't speak for anyone else, but you seem to be missing the biggest issue with this map: saying "you guys" excludes anyone but those identifying as male. You may not mean it that way, but I've had women be offended when I used that in the past, and I wouldn't like being referred to as a "gal" in a group of women. It's just not accurate.

Personally, for a gender-neutral way of addressing a group, I like "you folks".

☝️🤓 - HR sounding ass
- Empathy and caring how others want to be referred to is HR?? Lol, wild...
English is not my native language. I felt kinda weird about using "you guys" until I heard a woman that used "you guys" to a 100% woman group. I stopped caring about that shit because natural languages are weird and it all doesn't matter. What matters is the intention of what you say, not its form. Y'all should stop caring about fixing other people's speech too.

Youse LOL, almost lost it when I heard it one time