“...I don’t get it. I thought transgenders were fine with being referred to as he or she, or at least their reassigned gender. What kind of stupid is this?...”
It gets better. For those that have been watching reruns of MASH. Here is some more info, if anyone is still listening, I wouldn’t blame you at this point.
They are not at all satisfied with he and she. That is judgmental and limiting to them. You cannot tell them right and wrong.
Now they want us to call them he, she, ze...
Now they want us to use him, her, their...
http://web.mit.edu/trans/GenderNeutralPronouns.pdf
The following are the 58 gender options identified by ABC News:
Agender
Androgyne
Androgynous
Bigender
Cis
Cisgender
Cis Female
Cis Male
Cis Man
Cis Woman
Cisgender Female
Cisgender Male
Cisgender Man
Cisgender Woman
Female to Male
FTM
Gender Fluid
Gender Nonconforming
Gender Questioning
Gender Variant
Genderqueer
Intersex
Male to Female
MTF
Neither
Neutrois
Non-binary
Other
Pangender
Trans
Trans*
Trans Female
Trans* Female
Trans Male
Trans* Male
Trans Man
Trans* Man
Trans Person
Trans* Person
Trans Woman
Trans* Woman
Transfeminine
Transgender
Transgender Female
Transgender Male
Transgender Man
Transgender Person
Transgender Woman
Transmasculine
Transsexual
Transsexual Female
Transsexual Male
Transsexual Man
Transsexual Person
Transsexual Woman
Two-Spirit
Gender Neutral Pronoun Usage:
Subject Object Possessive Possessive Reflexive
Adjective Pronoun
Female She Her Her Hers Herself
Male He Him His His Himself
Gender
Neutral Ze Hir Hir Hirs Hirself
Spivak E Em Eir Eirs Emself
How to pronounce gender neutral pronouns:
Ze Hir Hirs Hirself E Em Eir Eirs Emself
/zee/ /here/ /heres/ /hereself/ /ee/ /em/ /air/ /airs/ /emself/
Examples of how to use these pronouns:
She went to her bedroom.
He went to his bedroom.
Ze went to hir bedroom.
E went to eir bedroom.
I am her sister.
I am his sister.
I am hir sister
I am eir sister.