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."
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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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