Вчера в сторис мы затронули тему non binary people — людей, которые не относят к себя к определенному полу и просят, чтобы про них говорили через местоимение they. А сегодня мы посмотрим, что же означает обращение Mx?

Ms., Mr. or Mx.? Nonbinary teachers embrace gender-neutral honorific

Educators who identify as neither exclusively male nor female have found “Mx.” to be a more fitting classroom honorific.

When Maddie Luebbert, 25, returned after a week away from the classroom, their students were complaining about the substitute teacher.
Luebbert dismissed the student complaints at first. “My students said ‘The substitute was awful.’ I was like ‘Yeah right, everyone says that,’”

But then the students started explaining why they didn’t like the substitute. “My students said to me, ‘The substitute was really disrespectful. She wouldn't use your pronouns or your name.’”

Luebbert is a nonbinary, 9th grade English teacher in a Philadelphia public school. Luebbert uses they/them pronouns and has their students address them with honorific Mx. — a gender-neutral alternative to the gendered Mr., Ms., Miss and Mrs. that most of us grew up using for our teachers.
Mx., generally pronounced as “mix,” has grown in popularity over the past few years, as more people outwardly and openly identify as transgender, gender-nonconforming and nonbinary — and have rejected the idea that only two options, male and female, exist.

But as honorifics fade in popularity and people work to avoid gendered assumptions, schools are among the last places where Mr., Ms., Miss and Mrs. are routinely used. For trans and nonbinary educators, like Luebbert, this poses challenges, but also opportunities for learning, education and affirmation.

NEW WORDS:
👫honorific — почтительное обращение
👫substitute teacher — заменяющий учитель
👫disrespectful — неуважительный
👫pronoun — местоимение
👫outwardly — наружно, на вид
👫reject — отвергать
👫fade in popularity — терять популярность
👫assumption — предположение

продолжение статьи:
https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/ms-mr-or-mx-nonbinary-teachers-embrace-gender-neutral-honorific-n960456#anchor-WHYMX