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[stormdog]

You know, now I'm slightly worried about using zie/zir pronouns for people whose gender is either irrelevant to the statement or I am intentionally anonymizing. I'm worried that I may use the terms inadvertantly to refer to someone whose preferred pronouns are they/their and it will look like I'm dismissing their pronoun choice in favor of the gender-neutral pronouns that I prefer. Life is complicated sometimes.

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[cmcmck]

Although if a person presents in a very definite way, that's usually a clue. I have friends whose looks are more 'fluid' than my own and I know they can prefer something neutral.

For me 'they' and 'them' work perfectly well without invented terms.

I speak as one who was more than once described as 'it'............