Recently, the University of Michigan announced a new policy allowing students to choose their own gender and “designated personal pronoun.”
The school’s webpage gives students several examples of pronouns they might use, but it makes sure to stipulate that a person should not be limited to those options. There are ”an infinite number of pronouns,” according to the academic institution that costs thousands of dollars a year to attend. “Always make sure to ask someone for their pronouns,” it warns, as if pronouns are things that a person can own and distribute like business cards.
For anyone confused about how you might “ask someone for their pronouns,” a similar resource from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee lays out the delicate process in detail:
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