Mx.
Appearance
See also: Appendix:Variations of "mx"
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]Mx.
- US and Canada standard form of Mx (“gender neutral title”).
- 2022, Lizzie Post, Daniel Post Senning, “Greetings & Introductions”, in Emily Post’s Etiquette, centennial/20th edition, New York, N.Y.: Ten Speed Press, →ISBN, page 45:
- [TITLE] Mx. [PLURAL] Mxes. / Pronounced “mixes” [WHO USES IT] Nonbinary, intersex, and gender-nonconforming people [IN WRITING] Mx. Riley Smith / Mx. Smith / The Mxes. Smith (relatives, or a married couple) / The Mxes. Smith, Laughlin, and Freedman (relatives or a group of individuals) / Mx. Riley Smith and Mx. Kai Laughlin (individuals or a couple) [IN CONVERSATION] “This is Mx. Riley Smith, they handle our design work.” / “The Mxes. Smith and Jones from the architecture firm Redefine Design are attending the wedding.” [NOTES] Mx. can also be used when you don’t want your gender known.
- 2022 July 29, Dodai Stewart, “The Fight to Save New York’s Extravagantly ’80s Subway Entrance”, in The New York Times[2], →ISSN:
- “They’re like, we want to make it like a place where people want to meet up. But why wouldn’t people want to meet up in a gigantic ice-cream parlor?” questioned Mx. Herzog, who prefers to use a gender-neutral honorific.
- 2024 April 28, Jen Silverman, “Art Isn’t Supposed to Make You Comfortable”, in The New York Times[3], →ISSN:
- Mx. Silverman is a playwright and the author, most recently, of the novel “There’s Going to Be Trouble.”