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Well, you could ask about the pronoun and use it to determine gender, but how is that different from asking for gender directly?
by xigoi 4y ago
Well, you could ask about the pronoun and use it to determine gender, but how is that different from asking for gender directly?
- danShumway 4y agoMy understanding is that it's reasonably common for a chunk of agender/nonbinary people to use traditional feminine/masculine pronouns. It just seems a bit more direct to ask how people want to be referred to; I would compare it to how typically in web forms we ask people if they go by Mrs/Ms/Mr/Dr/etc directly, rather than asking them if they have a PHD and are married. Especially if we're talking about gendered languages where there isn't strong support for nonbinary pronouns/variants. Someone telling us that they're agender/nonbinary doesn't actually help us much in that situation; we won't know from that information alone whether to use feminine or masculine variants.