Official Rax Pronouns 3.0 Release Notes

[rax]

This document describes the proper procedures for referring to rax using third-person pronouns. It supersedes all previous such documentation.

The correct pronoun for referring to rax is now "they." This is true whether you are referring to them as rax , Rax, Rachel, Rach, Kitty-Fox, or any other approved appellation. The pronoun "she" from pronoun release 2.0 is deprecated but still supported; there are not currenly plans to cease supporting this pronoun because the tech industry vertical maintains support for the 2.0 reference API as a requirement. Calls to the 2.0 system may occasionally produce warning messages encouraging you to update your pronoun usage, depending on the context of your statement. Use of the 1.0 pronoun API is explicitly unsupported and may lead to erratic and unexpected results; it is not recommended. If you find old documentation or legacy code that refers to rax with legacy pronouns, please inform them so that the situation may be remedied.

rax offers limited support for other gender-neutral pronoun calls; while "ey" and "xie" are not explicitly supported, these pronouns have been successful in limited field testing. If there is interest, a patch release may be offered in the future supporting these alternate pronoun sets. Please contact your sales representative for more information.

This change to the pronoun API does not constitute a change in the core rax gender identities module; no such changes are planned, although all things are possible. For more information about the core gender identities module, please contact Customer Support.

Comments

[kelkyag]

What courtesy titles are approved for use with these pronoun selections?

[rax.livejournal.com]

Mx. is preferred! (pronounced "Mix") Ms. is... tolerable. "The" is also acceptable, as in:

The Rachel Dillon
100 E Street Name
Tucson, AZ 85716

Because that's awesome.

[anacoluthon.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, I hadn't thought of "The" before. I know Enne suggested "Rear Admiral" to a friend who wanted a title to use.

[krinndnz.livejournal.com]

I am also fond of "that" - America's only native title of nobility.

As in, "oh, you're THAT Judith Butler!"

[rax.livejournal.com]

I have also been "not THAT rax! the good one!"

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

Yeah I put off meeting you for a while because of meeting the other Rax on Taps first.

[madcaptenor.livejournal.com]

There's another one?

[rax.livejournal.com]

There is another furry Rax, yes. We are very different.

[occultatio.livejournal.com]

Before I got my new badge with my full name on it, when students asked what my first name was, I answered "Sir."

...none of them believed me.

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

This is not the only reason I have a doctorate, but it's one of the big beneficial side-effects thereof.

[madcaptenor.livejournal.com]

I have a doctorate and have thought that, but it's really annoying to be that asshole who always insists on being called Dr. Lastname.

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

It was useful during most of a year of working alongside my parent of the appropriate gender such that it resolved an otherwise real ambiguity, though.

So very very glad I am not doing that any more.