You, me and they/them: The power of pronouns
We’re living through a gender revolution, and with new ground being broken every day, many individuals are adopting their own particular pronouns to be addressed by. Navigating the unfamiliar territory isn’t always straightforward for others – so here, three non-binary people explain the easiest way to go about it
We use pronouns every day without thinking much about them. In the English language, they’re tricky as they also take into account a person’s gender – which is often assumed to be the same as their biological sex. Transgender people usually change their pronouns (from he/she to him/her, for example) to reflect their lived experience as a man or a woman. Similarly, non-binary people – who identify as neither a man nor a woman exclusively ...
