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In May 1991, a MOO programmer, Roger Crew, added "spivak" as a gender setting for players on LambdaMOO, causing the game to refer to such players with the pronouns e, em, eir, eirs, emself. The setting was added along with several other "fake genders" in order to test changes to the software's pronoun code, and was left in place as a novelty.
Neopronouns are nonbinary pronouns distinct from the common she, he and they. Terms such as “xe” and “em” are often used by trans and nonbinary people. ... ey/em/eir (commonly pronounced ...
Neopronouns may be words created to serve as pronouns, such as "ze/hir", or derived from existing words and turned into personal pronouns, such as "fae/faer". [4] Some neopronouns allude to they/them, such as "ey/em", a form of Spivak pronoun. [5] A survey by The Trevor Project in 2020 found that 4% of the LGBT youth surveyed used neopronouns. [6]
Since at least the 19th century, numerous proposals for the use of other non-standard gender-neutral pronouns have been introduced: e, (es, em) is the oldest recorded English gender-neutral (ungendered) pronoun with declension, coined by Francis Augustus Brewster in 1841. [75] E, es, em, and emself were also proposed by James Rogers in 1890. [76]
In 2017, Kobabe taught comics to junior high students in local libraries but wondered if e should ask them to use the pronouns e, em, eir, which fit Kobabe’s sense of self more than they/them.
Kobabe — who uses e/em/eir pronouns, which also are known as Spivak pronouns — said e was consumed with questions about eir identity, gender and sexuality through eir teens and early 20s, and ...
Kobabe uses Spivak pronouns (e/em/eir) [19] [20] [21] and identifies as non-binary and asexual. [8] [22] Kobabe is dyslexic and did not learn to read until age 11. [23]
Gender is a spectrum, and there is no right or wrong way to discover your gender identity. Here, young people share the moment they knew they were nonbinary.