Preferred gender pronoun

Four pin-on metal badges with labels "He Him", "She Her", "They Them", and "Ask Me!"
A set of four badges, created by the organizers of the XOXO art and technology festival in Portland, Oregon

Preferred gender pronouns (also called personal gender pronouns, often abbreviated as PGP[1]) are the set of pronouns (in English, third-person pronouns) that an individual wants others to use to reflect that person's own gender identity. In English, when declaring one's chosen pronouns, a person will often state the subject and object pronouns (e.g., "he/him", "she/her", "they/them"), although sometimes, the possessive pronouns are also stated (e.g., "she/her/hers", "he/him/his", "they/them/theirs"). The pronouns chosen may include neopronouns such as "ze" and "zir".[2][3][4]

Preferred personal pronouns were recognized as the word of the year 2019 by the American Dialect Society.[5]

  1. ^ "Personal gender pronouns". VGC Group. Retrieved July 14, 2022.
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  5. ^ "2019 Word of the Year is "(My) Pronouns," Word of the Decade is Singular "They"". American Dialect Society. January 4, 2020. Retrieved May 30, 2024.