Rolling pronouns
personal pronoun sets used interchangeably or changing over time depending on one’s preference
Rolling pronouns, or rotating pronouns, is the use of multiple personal pronouns that can be used alternately or shift over time. They are usually used by non-binary or otherwise transgender people, and are usually used to signify their connection with their gender identity while affirming their identity.
Use
Rolling pronouns are usually used by non-binary, transfeminine, and transmasculine people, and the people that use them usually encourage others to rotate or mix them when speaking to or referring to them. The pronouns are meant to signify their connection with their gender identity, while affirming their non-binary identity. Likewise, rolling pronouns are necessary for genderfluid people to affirm their fluctuating gender identity. For instance, writer and podcast host Ada Powers uses she and they pronouns and as expressed: "I identify as a woman, but also as nonbinary. I don't feel womanhood tells my full story, but I'm not fully divested from it, either.". When generalized to languages other than English, rolling grammatical gender is used by languages which maintain strict masculine/feminine grammatical gender, as there is no neuter grammatical gender by which non-binary people can refer to themselves with.
According to the 2020 Gender Census, around a third of transgender and non-binary people preferred to use two sets of pronouns, and over 10% stated that they liked three or even more sets. The LGBTQ Nation magazine has argued that rolling pronouns are becoming more common as a growing amount of young people identified as non-binary.
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