Preferred Gender Pronouns

Preferred Gender Pronouns or

PGPs

are the genderpronouns that we all use, such as his, her, hir, she, he,him, ze

–

not 

 

“male” 

or

 

“female”.

The whole point in

saying what our PGPs are is that we don’t want to make

assumptions about how others identify. When we ask about your PGPs we are looking for specific pronounsyou use

not 

your gender identity, gender expression orsex.

Examples:

“I am a girl/boy.”

 

“I prefer masculine/feminine ones.”“Girl/Guy ones.”

Vs.

“I prefer my name.”

 

“I prefer she, her, and hers.”

 

“I prefer gender neutral

 

pronouns.”

 

 

These examplesdo not list specificpronouns andforce others tomake assumptionsThese exampleslist specificpronouns or termsto use whenreferring to theindividual