After registration, on the way to the coffee and bagels (tea and an apple), was a table with a couple making "pronoun preference" buttons--"he/him" or "she/her" or you could write in your own.(*) In the end, I only saw a handful of people wearing them. I flatter myself that it's always been easy to tell what sex I am--especially now with a dad-bod and extensive male pattern baldness. I wonder how many people viewed the idea of an explicit id as faintly insulting.
If I have to register a pronoun, I think I'll pick "Mar".(**) ( ܡܪܝ ) I admit that this is purely aspirational, but would serve as a good reminder.
(*)I saw only one man with the write-in button. His print was so small I couldn't make it out. As usual, the conference was mostly men.
(**) "Mor" would also work, except that it would be confused with "more."
They want to show everyone they are hep to the jive, now that some of the kids are identifying as "thir" or "xir."
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