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'''Form opinions'''
'''Form opinions'''
 
See [[Pronouns criteria]].
The first step of choosing your pronouns is to form your criteria for what you want from your pronouns. Some traits are mutually exclusive, so you need to weigh your own opinions about what you think makes a good or personally suitable pronoun. Here is a sample list of criteria you could consider. Copy this list into another document, and write numbers next to the criteria to rank them by their priority to you. Think about what traits matter to you, even if they are not on this list.
 
* You want to be basically the only person with these pronouns
* You want to have these pronouns in common with many real people
* Pronounceable, easy to say out loud
* Easy to spell
* No rare letters
* Fits into a sentence seamlessly
* Accessible, easy for people to use who have trouble with English
* Old, created a long time ago
* New
* Commonly used
* Rare
* Unique and creative
* Sounds like a mix of "she" and "he" pronouns
* Doesn't sound at all like "she" or "he", to get more distance from the gender binary
* Sounds like a standard English pronoun, but with a twist
* Part of native English
* Symbolic, describes you or your gender
* Sounds like your name
* Sounds like the word for your gender
* Sounds cool, tough, pretty, whimsical, serious, or something else like that
* Associated with your interests, community, or culture
* Part of a dialect
* Culturally neutral
* Your friends and family like them
* Easy to persuade other people that it's okay to use these pronouns for you
* Satisfactory to people who are strict about grammar
* Slangy, fits well into informal speech
* Fits well into formal writing
 
The above list is only an example. If you like, you can use it as inspiration to create your own list from scratch.




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At the same time as you work on the above table of pros and cons, test the pronouns that you might like. Try them in several ways: in writing, out loud, and in reference to you. If you have friends who understand, test out having them call you by these pronouns for a little while. You can help your friends with this by wearing a pronoun badge (see below). You can also test how your pronouns look in writing by using web-sites that put them into a text. Such sites include [http://www.pronouns.failedslacker.com/ Failedslacker's Pronoun Dressing Room] and [http://www.practicewithpronouns.com/ PracticeWithPronouns.com]. You may find that you feel differently about the pronouns when they are in action, and when they are in reference to you.
At the same time as you work on the above table of pros and cons, test the pronouns that you might like. Try them in several ways: in writing, out loud, and in reference to you. If you have friends who understand, test out having them call you by these pronouns for a little while. You can help your friends with this by wearing a pronoun badge (see below). You can also test how your pronouns look in writing by using web-sites that put them into a text. Such sites include [http://www.pronouns.failedslacker.com/ Failedslacker's Pronoun Dressing Room] and [http://www.practicewithpronouns.com/ PracticeWithPronouns.com]. You may find that you feel differently about the pronouns when they are in action, and when they are in reference to you.
===Announcing your change of pronouns===
===Announcing your change of pronouns===


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