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Jordan Rose
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I got asked about the pronouns on my badge yesterday! "I can see why a trans person would do this, but why a cis person?" In a word, normalization.

Conferences should offer everyone the option of putting pronouns on badges (but not require it). Until then, I'm writing mine in. My WWDC badge has
I'm not trans, so I'm not the person to look to for guidance, but making pronouns easy is a simple first step for a cis person who wants to be an ally. You can read more about what pronouns in public spaces means to me at belkadan.com/blog/2016/06/P….
Bonus: the people asking were Danish, so I got to show off my knowledge of "hen", the gender-neutral pronoun in…okay, it was in Swedish first and I forgot that, but they knew what I was talking about. babbel.com/en/magazine/sw…
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