Why I Won’t Put My Pronouns In My Bio (Or Anything Else)
Pronouns – it’s a hot topic these days. Yes, we all have pronouns (how we wish to be referred to in accordance with our gender), but should we walk around advertising these pronouns? Should you ask someone’s pronouns in a conversation when you first meet them? What if someone’s external presentation doesn’t align with their preferred pronouns?
These questions have been at the forefront of the gender identity discourse in recent years. Where previously people would have laughed at the idea of wearing a name tag displaying your pronouns, now it’s so commonplace that most of the people you come across on Twitter or Instagram have them prominently displayed in their bios. However, I think gender pronoun discourse has become less about the utility of referring to people properly and more about signaling allyship with trans people.