The University of Tennessee is asking students to use “ze, hir, hirs, and xe, xem, xyr.”
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the University of Tennessee, they’re actually the gender-neutral singular versions of pronouns according to The University of Tennessee Office for Diversity and Inclusion . At University of Tennessee Knoxville this is what they are asking students and faculty to use as pronouns in order to create a more inclusive campus. They say it alleviates a heavy burden for people expressing different genders or identities
We should not assume someone’s gender by their appearance, nor by what is listed on a roster or in student information systems,” Donna Braquet, the director of the University of Tennessee’s Pride Center said. “Transgender people and people who do not identify within the gender binary may use a different name than their legal name and pronouns of their gender identity, rather than the pronouns of the sex they were assigned at birth.” WATE-TV
