The following
informal guidelines on how to treat people who are transitioning or genderqueer
may be helpful for colleagues and fellow students. Listen to the
person, and ask them how they want to be treated and referred to. Think of the
person as being the gender that they want you to think of them as. Use the name and
pronoun that the person asks you to. If you are not sure what the right pronoun
is, then simply ask
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University of Oxford Transgender Guidance
An idea
gaining traction is to have an assortment of pronouns that people can choose
from depending on their ‘gender identity’. With 50+ ‘gender identities’ being
bandied about, that could become complicated.
