the one that I seem to find the most gender-fluid people using themselves - which is, of course, the best place to start with this question.
Useful to know, and I concur. (I've also asked the question over on the Intercon FB page, which has a fair gender-fluid community.) I'm amused at the sheer variety of z-based variants out there -- Wikipedia lists four, and this is slightly different from all of them -- but I'm happy to go with whatever seems to be most popular.
The runner up in that population also seems to be "they" and its dependents.
Yeah, I'm seeing a lot of support for that. There are grammatical problems there (due to what it's being used for here, you have to remember to write all of the matching grammar in the singular, which is a bit tricky with "they"), but I don't object to trying it. At the moment, given the discussion so far, I'm leaning towards including "they" plus one of the neologisms as built-in alternatives. If ze/zim/zir/zirs is popular, I'm happy to go with that. (I find it pretty intuitive, personally.)
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Useful to know, and I concur. (I've also asked the question over on the Intercon FB page, which has a fair gender-fluid community.) I'm amused at the sheer variety of z-based variants out there -- Wikipedia lists four, and this is slightly different from all of them -- but I'm happy to go with whatever seems to be most popular.
The runner up in that population also seems to be "they" and its dependents.
Yeah, I'm seeing a lot of support for that. There are grammatical problems there (due to what it's being used for here, you have to remember to write all of the matching grammar in the singular, which is a bit tricky with "they"), but I don't object to trying it. At the moment, given the discussion so far, I'm leaning towards including "they" plus one of the neologisms as built-in alternatives. If ze/zim/zir/zirs is popular, I'm happy to go with that. (I find it pretty intuitive, personally.)