The Freedom to Choose Your Pronoun
By JENNIFER CONLIN
Published: September 30, 2011
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/02/fashion/choosing-a-pronoun-he-she-or-other-after-curfew.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=pgp&st=cseA FEW weeks ago, Katy Butler, 16, updated her status on Facebook with an enthusiastic shout-out for Google+, the social network's latest rival. "Oh my God Google! I love it! I was signing up for Google+ and they asked me my gender and the choices were male, female or OTHER!!!!! Oh ya Google!"
Katy, a high school junior in Ann Arbor, Mich., first encountered "other" as a gender option at a meeting of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning and Allies (LGBTQQA) in seventh grade. "For those of us in the nonconforming gender community, it is great to see Google make the option more mainstream," she said.
