Top London Uni LGBT+ Campaign Says To Never Call a Stranger “He or She”

The LGBT+ Students’ Network at University College London (UCL) is this year running a campaign to raise awareness of gender-neutral pronouns used by transgender people. A page on UCL’s website introducing the campaign asserts there are people who don’t ‘identify’ as male or female and consider themselves to be “non-binary”. Stressing the apparent importance of gender pronouns to such people,

the page urges readers use gender-neutral pronouns upon meeting new people so as not to ‘misgender’ anyone. In a video the LGBT+ Network prepared for the campaign, a number of students speak earnestly about the importance of pronouns to them, and give instructions and tips on getting to grips with gender-neutral ones. READ MORE