Official Rax Pronouns 3.0 Release Notes

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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

[http://users.livejournal.com/unnecessary_/]

I think the only difficulty I have in calling someone they is it makes the grammar geek in me cringe, lol! But I think a supportive and accepting society is more important than following grammar rules.

If it's someone who I'm close to, I feel a little disappointed

Can you explain why? As you know, I'm still in Pre-K about transgender or gender.

[rax.livejournal.com]

The grammar geek in me has been convinced by the "Shakespeare used singular they" argument. That may or may not work for you :)

I guess the people I'm closest to I expect to have a greater investment in my identity and in working with me to help me the way I want to be, and vice versa? I know it takes some time for changes to sink in, having been on both sides of it more than once now, but a lot of that is time over proximity, and the people closest to me are also proximate and thus hopefully they should pick it up sooner.

[http://users.livejournal.com/unnecessary_/]

Okay, thanks for answering me. I asked because I wasn't sure if it was a thing the transgendered community felt offended by or if it was something that you would want your friends to do to support you as an individual.

[rax.livejournal.com]

No problem! I think that it's some of both; I don't think I speak for the whole of the trans community, some of whom would argue I am a traitor for wanting a gender-neutral pronoun at all. ;) But I think most folks count on their close friends to support them when they're facing difficulty, and issues of identity and gender can certainly be difficult.