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Another man tells her about how the Los Zetas cartel struck such fear in locals that “you called them ‘the last letter guys,’ as in zee for Zeta.”

When I came out as nonbinary decades ago, I asked others to use "ze/hir" – pronounced "zee" and "here" – for me.

“Did you children bring bags and rope to haul out zee treasure?” he asked.

“Stay close to zee candles,” she says, holding an oversized candelabra with unlit candlesticks as she climbs a shadowy staircase.

We don’t need any more of this “I am zee law” tyranny.