Recently University of Tennessee asked tutors to ask students what pronouns they would like to be addressed by instead of automatically addressing them by gender binary pronouns such as “he” and “she,” to promote gender inclusivity.
Jacob Tobia, recent college grad, identifies as genderqueer.
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Donna Braquet, director of the Pride Center at the university in Knoxville, has posted advice to respect that some students may identify differently to the gender assigned them on the register.
Instead of "he" or "she", there is "ze" or "xe". For "him" or "her", it could be "them" or "they" (so eliminating gender by talking about the person in the plural), or it could be "zem" or "xir" or "hir". So, "I can see zem" or "Have you seen xir?".
For "their", their might again be used, or other options would be: "That is xyr food" or "Is that food xirs?"
Other vocabularies, including many East Asian and Austronesian languages, have no gender specific pronouns.
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...-10478034.html
Also a couple of years ago a preschool in Swdeen banned gender binary pronouns like “him" and "her”:
"Teachers use gender neutral "emotion dolls" are to prevent children from falling into gender stereotypes."
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- Swedish preschool bans gendered terms
- Staff avoid words such as "him" or "her"
The taxpayer-funded preschool which opened last year in the liberal Sodermalm district of Stockholm for kids aged one to six is among the most radical examples of Sweden's efforts to engineer equality between the sexes from childhood onward.
Some parents worry things have gone too far. An obsession with obliterating gender roles, they say, could make the children confused and ill-prepared to face the world outside kindergarten.
"We use the word "hen" for example when a doctor, police, electrician or plumber or such is coming to the kindergarten," Rajalin says. "We don't know if it's a he or a she so we just say 'Hen is coming around 2pm' Then the children can imagine both a man or a woman. This widens their view."
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http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/rea...-1226082516997
So hennys, what do you say? Should more schools around the world ban gender binary pronouns like "he" and "she" and instead use gender neutral pronouns like "ze"? 
