pronouns-examples

This page documents specific examples of how pronoun information is currently published on the web, as well as UIs which support pronoun fields.

Sites and Services

Examples of sites/software which allow their users to specify their pronouns, either to be displayed in a profile, or to configure pronouns used by the software to refer to the user.

• Bagcheck chose to ask which pronoun you want to use:
  • Preferred Possessive Pronoun: ( )Her ( )His ( )Their
• MediaWiki.org has radio button choice on Preferences: "(I prefer not to say)", "She edits wiki pages", "He edits wiki pages"
• MetaFilter updated their user profile field from "Gender" to "Gender and/or pronouns" [1]
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Incidentally in Profiles

Examples of pronoun information published by people on sites which don’t explicitly implement pronoun support, e.g. as part of a description field in their profile.

• https://twitter.com/rknLA he/him in profile
• @abbieandahalf has "they/them" in their Twitter bio
• @brianloveswords has "he/him" in his Twitter bio
• @lindseybieda has "she/her" in her Twitter bio
• @jneen_ has http://pronoun.is/she in her Twitter bio
• my.pronoun.is (or just pronoun.is) is a little website that offers a way to show your pronouns on a silo profile using a link, e.g. my.pronoun.is/they/them
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Personal Sites

See also: pronoun#Indieweb Examples

Examples of people who publish pronoun information on their personal sites, sometimes with experimental microformats2 properties.

• http://acegiak.net as of 2015-02-18 using experimental p-x-pronoun-* property classes in an h-card
• http://gregorlove.com/about as of 2015-03-12 using experimental p-x-pronoun-* property classes in an h-card
• http://vanderven.se/martijn/ on 2017-05-21 using experimental u-pronoun property classes in an h-card to link to language-specific wiktionary.org pages for each pronoun
• https://00dani.me/ using experimental a u-pronoun property class linking to a pronoun.is page
• https://aaronparecki.com/about/ plain text He / Him inside an h-card
• https://www.jvt.me on 2019-04-10 using experimental [x-]pronoun-* property classes in an h-card
• sixtwothree.org on 2019-08-27 using experimental x-pronoun-* property classes in an h-card, also linked to my.pronoun.is
• beesbuzz[.]biz/about on 2018-11-16, and to the representative h-card on 2019-12-06 using experimental p-pronouns and p-pronoun-* property classes inside an h-card: she/her or they/them
• https://tantek.com h-card on 2020-10-22 using p-pronouns for the full set as a string, and p-pronoun h-pronoun for each individual pronoun linked to a URL explaining its use.
• https://waterpigs.co.uk using experimental x-pronoun-* classes in an h-card: Pronouns: he/him/his
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