#it its pronouns

[bizarreaizen]

some people need to realize that people's identity doesn't harm you, like who cares if someone named bug, who uses cat/it pronouns, identifies as a fox and has xenogenders? like it's not harming you is it? let people live their life, if they are happy and they're not harming anyone or themselves, why does it matter so much? >_< /gen

[lucky-stick]

He/it but in a way you would call a funky bug u don’t know the name of

[an-uncertain-robot-girl]

Them: Why do you use "it" as one of your pronouns? Isn't that dehumanizing?

Me: I got into a game of tag when I was little, I got tagged but could never catch any of the other kids

Them: . . .

Me: So I'm still "it"

*the following scene has been censored for [violence]*

[isabellascarlett1]

“You can’t use It/its pronouns for a person”

When someone knocks at your door one may say “who is *it*”

*It* as in the person at the door.

*It* as in a person.

[jiraisupportgroup]

[thekobaltpossum]

I love my it/its pronouns more than anything

[rabbithvn]

this stupid thing .. i wanna post my portal ocs more often

[blog-for-water]

Part 2

Part 1

[harlanphobic]

they say my terrible state of being has economic implications the way i'm an ohio trans it

[bizarreaizen]

*someone calling me "it" to insult me*

me whose pronouns are it/its: (◍•ᴗ•◍) /lh

[boy-gender]

It/its pronoun users i love you i owe you my life

[fagbearentertainment]

Question to it/its pronoun users I have an oc that I want to use it/its for but the oc is a robot so like would that be offensive or upsetting to y’all? I wanna make sure before I start animating and make it official for the character, and don’t be afraid to tell me if it is

^ this is the character for reference

[warrior-cat-pride]

Transmasc/agender aromantic Sol. With the it/its flag

[psychadelic-blasphemy]

he/it pronouns because I'm a boy but I'm not entirely, but I'm not a girl, but people are too comfy with they/them, and don't use he, but with it/its people are a little scared and they use he/him more. also, because my gender is clown and clown is it/its to me, y'know?

[cyrilrambleswhatasurprise]

has anyone else noticed that the legacy collection database calls cut man an "it" for some reason?

at first i thought "that's kinda weird and dehumanizing 😡 meanies"

but now i'm like "cut man is a he/him it/its user bc fuck "normal" gender expression🗣️🗣️🗣️ we ball"

[skysometric]

i love getting to be affirming to my trans siblings by using their pronouns in unique ways... but it/its presents a unique linguistic problem that makes it hard to be clear about my affirmations (and it's not what you think, promise)

take the phrase "it's raining," for example. what's raining? the weather? the sky? the day? "it" in this case doesn't refer to anything at all, instead being a non-referential pronoun.

say you're at the airport waiting for your friend – when you see her you might shout "it's Kaylie!" and the "it" in this case once again doesn't really stand for anything, it's a statement of fact. "it" doesn't refer to the person – like, you'd never say "she's Kaylie!" in that situation.

and yet, a lot of places where i'd substitute "it" for "she" can read this way by accident?

like if i wanted to say "she's the most hardworking person i know" then it's obvious i'm using her pronouns correctly, but if i wanted to say "it's the most hardworking person i know" then it reads more ambiguously, as though i could be revealing the existence of some person like in the previous example. it's no longer clear that i'm using its pronouns on purpose.

not my best example ever, i know; there are more ambiguous examples than this, but it mostly depends on context that's hard to summarize in a post.

to be clear, this doesn't mean i have a problem with the pronouns – it just means i have to be more clever if i want to show my it/its friends how much i appreciate them~