Friday, December 21, 2012

Pronouns

I am trying to figure out pronouns to represent a bigendered friend of mine.

For those of you do not know what bigender is, let me explain. It refers to an individual to associates back and forth or simultaneously as a male or a female characteristics or persona. This means regardless of physical appearance, they internally associate themselves as either male ore female based on their own context of the day or timeframe. They can see themselves as more feminine or more masculine and dress accordingly or however they feel expresses them as an individual.

Now, these people have many different titles: bigendered, androgynous, en femme or en homme, gender-neutral, or Ser and Mx. However, we we think of pronouns we think of defining someone as either "he" or "she", which doesn't apply to everyone. There are the transponders who either classify themselves as the opposite of what they physically are and there are the bigenders who think of them as one or the other depending on how comfortable they are during the particular moment in time they are feeling. This does not mean they are bipolar or have multiple personalities. This does not relate to their orientation s being bisexual which is the liking of male and female sexes. This refers to their state of mind of their own well being apart from societies restraints.

I have a transgendered friend who we refer to as "he" or "him", yet with my bigendered friend, it is a lot harder to associate them with pronouns when we are unable to determine what gender they would like to be identified as. So there needs to be a neutral pronoun to classify bigenders as without associate them as an "it" or a "they". We need something in society that classifies these individuals as what they are without confusing them as what they seem to be.

So, what pronoun can we use?

xe/xem/xyr/xyrs/xemself

There are others with "N", "Z", and "V" but I like the alternative with the "Y" in place of the "I" it distinguishes itself from using normal vowels.

Xe laughed.

I called Xem.

Xyr eyes gleam.

That is Xyrs.

Xe likes Xemself.

Plus think of it this way. X and Y are always used when associating chromosomes which apply to a majority of the population turning out either male or female biologically. There are occasionally moments where a male grows up with female hormones that act as female hormones such as chest growth in females yet still obtain their male genitalia. There is something known as the XYY or XXY. Look it up, it is fascinating and pretty common in Southeast Asian countries. I learned about it in Sociology class.

It is basically where a girl can have an extended clitoris that can function like a penis and a male can be born as a boy and grow up with female features.

What do you think bi-gendered individuals should be called?
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