Preferred Gender Pronouns (PGPs)

A list of gender-neutral and gender-specific pronouns.

Context

Gender-neutral pronouns are words that don't specify whether the subject of the sentence is female or male. 'They', for instance, is a third-person pronoun that is gender neutral. Other gender-neutral pronouns include 'them', 'this person', 'everyone', 'Ze', or 'Hir'. If you're not sure which pronoun to use, you can also use that person's name.

Definitions for gender

Gender

Either of the two sexes (male and female), especially when considered with reference to social and cultural differences rather than biological ones. The term is also used more broadly to denote a range of identities that do not correspond to established ideas of male and female.

either the male or female division of a species, especially as differentiated by social and cultural roles and behavior

a similar category of human beings that is outside the male/female binary classification and is based on the individual's personal awareness or identity

Common gender pronouns

Table of pronouns by gender and case.

Gender	Subjective case	Objective case	Possessive Determiner	Possessive Pronoun	Intensive/Reflexive case
FEMALE	She	Her	Her	Hers	Herself
MALE	He	Him	His	His	Himself
NEUTRAL	E	Em	Eir	Eirs	Emself
NEUTRAL	Ey	Em	Eir	Eirs	Eirself
NEUTRAL	Sie	Sie	Hir	Hirs	Hirself
NEUTRAL	Tey	Ter	Tem	Ters	Terself
NEUTRAL	Ve	Ver	Vis	Vers	Verself
NEUTRAL	Xe	Xem	Xyr	Xyrs	Xemself
NEUTRAL	Zie	Zim	Zir	Zis	Zieself
UNKNOWN	They	Them	Their	Theirs	Themself

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Case

Case shows a pronoun's (or a noun's) relationship with the other words in a sentence.

Subjective

A pronoun that is the subject of a sentence.

Objective

A pronoun that is either a direct, indirect, or a prepositional object.

(Possessive) Determiner

A pronoun used for specifying a person that owns something.

Possessive (pronoun)

Used for showing possession (i.e., ownership).

Intensive/Reflexive

Used when someone is both the subject and the object of the same verb—that is, both that which is performing the action of the verb and that which is receiving the action.

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ISO/IEC 5218

ISO/IEC 5218 is an international standard that defines a representation of human sexes through a language-neutral single-digit code. Its use is limited to information systems such as databases.

The four codes specified in ISO/IEC 5218 are:

Code	Definition
0	Not known
1	Male
2	Female
9	Not applicable

From a marketing perspective, the ISO/IEC 5218 specification isn't very useful. It can be used along with other gender specifications, however.

Attributions and References

1. Definition of gender | Dictionary.com. www.dictionary.com. (2020). Retrieved 12 April 2020, from https://www.dictionary.com/browse/gender.

2. Forsey, C. (2020). Gender Neutral Pronouns: What They Are & How to Use Them. Blog.hubspot.com. Retrieved 12 April 2020, from https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/gender-neutral-pronouns.

3. Gender Pronouns | LGBT Resource Center. (2020). Uwm.edu. Retrieved 12 April 2020, from https://uwm.edu/lgbtrc/support/gender-pronouns/.

4. Shrives, C. (2020). Case | What Is Case in Grammar?. Grammar-monster.com. Retrieved 12 April 2020, from https://www.grammar-monster.com/glossary/case.htm.