Description
A very specific guide to talking about trans people with confidence and respect.
It’s aiming to be a beginner-to-advanced guide for allies, with an informative and nerdy tone. It explains:
- Third-person, personal, singular pronouns (with established examples)
- Why learning new pronouns is harder than learning new names
- Why singular they always has plural verbs (always “you are” and not “you is”, even when talking about one person)
- How to use they/them for nonbinary people (including themselves vs. themself)
- How to mess up gracefully (with a focus on making it more comfortable for the trans person)
- What neopronouns are
This zine is 36 sides of A5, with 120 gsm 100% recycled paper pages and 100% recycled card cover, handstitch-bound. First printed in May 2024.
It’s informed by my 12 years or so of running the Gender Census and gathering data from tens of thousands of nonbinary and gender-divergent people, so this might be the closest I’ve gotten to official Gender Census merch!
