CallaFirestormBW
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ORIGINAL: CallaFirestormBW I use gender-neuter pronouns when posting to the boards. Calla Is "hir" an actual word? Yes, it is an actual word, in the same sense that "email", "blog", etc., are words, though it is not in common useage, and I don't know if it has made it into any dictionaries as of yet (though it IS listed among gender-neuter pronouns on Wikipedia). I started using it in 1998, when I started writing a novel that required pronouns for a third gender called "bi-gens", who were able to shift from one gender to the other at will. I decided that English, with its absence of gender-neuter pronouns, really needed a boost in order to not have the confusion of a character's pronoun changing several times through the course of the book, so I worked with the TG community to find words that would work. The first version of the novel came out with another set of neuter-gender pronouns, but editors and readers found it cumbersome, so in the 2nd edition, we switched out the previous neuter-gender pronouns for xhe and hir -- and I've been using them ever since.
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