What Listing Pronouns Doesn’t Tell Trans People

Sophia Burns
5 min readJun 11, 2021
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I knew a transfeminine person who preferred to go by “they/them.” But whenever it was time for a pronoun round, that’s not what they would say. Instead, they always asked for “she/her.” When I was curious about that, they told me that asking for “she” meant getting “they” in practice — but asking for “they” would only get them “he.”

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Sophia Burns

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