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Xe is phasing out that name in favor of "Xe". Xer domain name change was a part of that shift.

Ah I'm sorry, I hadn't checked the website in a little while. I now see there's a redirect and that there is a different name in use.

Is 'Xe' the name or the preferred pronoun of the person in question? Is this like Latinx but race neutral? Gender identity accommodations seem to get more complex and confusing by the month...

Name, at least that's my interpretation from looking at her Contact Me page:

https://xeiaso.net/contact

[correction] on their GitHub page I see: Please call me (order of preference): Xe/xer, They/them or She/her please.

[edit] obscure to have your pronoun also be your name (or maybe your title?). Or maybe it is all just satire, given: "I am an ordained minister with the Church of the Latter-day Dude. This allows me to officiate religious ceremonies in at least the United States." - https://dudeism.com

To be honest having a person's name be the same as their nominative case pronoun is kind of cool from a whole different perspective than you normally get to see. By doing this experiment I get to see how bad of an idea it is to do that. So far the xe/xer pronouns don't seem to stick as well, but it looks cool so I'm gonna keep up the experiment.

I'm also quite seriously an ordained minister.

> To be honest having a person's name be the same as their nominative case pronoun is kind of cool

The whole point of a person's name is to sufficiently differentiate them from the other persons. Using pronoun as name (or vice versa) just totally negates this goal.

To be fair, the name came first. Then I found out it conflicted with people's pronouns and I sat on the idea for a while. Now I'm throwing science at the wall to see what sticks, and this is a fairly amusing experiment. So I'm gonna keep it going.

I like it!

:-)

Who gives. Just use 'they' or 'them', or whatever. It is a universal catch all, gender neutral, i18n inclusivity conformant, ISO 69420 compliant, race neutral, etc.

At this point, all of it is basically designed to further confuse and only create a very monthly chaotic outcome for everyone.

Xe has been in use as a gender neutral pronoun for nearly thirty years. I, a startlingly ordinary person, was familiar with it as early as the late 90s.

Why not both?

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