Gender Pronouns
Some genderqueer people prefer to use gender-neutral pronouns such as one, ze, sie, hir, co, ey or singular "they", "their" and "them", while others prefer the conventional binary pronouns "her" or "him". Some genderqueer people prefer to be referred to alternately as he and she (and/or gender neutral pronouns), and some prefer to use only their name and not use pronouns at all.
Many genderqueer people prefer additional neutral language, such as the title "Mx" instead of Mr or Ms.
In July 2012 Gopi Shankar,a Gender activist and a student from The American College in Madurai coined the regional terms for Genderqueer people in Tamil during Asia's first Genderqueer Pride Parade, Gopi said apart from male and female, there are more than 20 types of genders, such as transwoman, transmen, androgynous, pangender and trigender etc and ancient India refer it as Trithiya prakirthi.
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