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* In Kameron Hurley's fantasy novel, Empire Ascendant, all people in a consent culture get to choose which of the five gender roles they identify with. Hurley calls characters who are "ungendered" by singular they pronouns.<ref>Kameron Hurley, "Beyond He-Man and She-Ra: Writing nonbinary characters." https://intellectusspeculativus.wordpress.com/2014/09/03/guest-post-beyond-he-man-she-ra-writing-non-binary-characters-by-kameron-hurley/</ref>
* In Kameron Hurley's fantasy novel, Empire Ascendant, all people in a consent culture get to choose which of the five gender roles they identify with. Hurley calls characters who are "ungendered" by singular they pronouns.<ref>Kameron Hurley, "Beyond He-Man and She-Ra: Writing nonbinary characters." https://intellectusspeculativus.wordpress.com/2014/09/03/guest-post-beyond-he-man-she-ra-writing-non-binary-characters-by-kameron-hurley/</ref>
* In K. A. Cook's anthology Crooked Words, the character Chris asks to be called by "they" pronouns. Chris is in the short stories "Blue Paint, Chocolate and Other Similes" and "Everything In A Name."<ref>K. A. Cook, ''Crooked Words''. Unpaged.</ref>
* In K. A. Cook's anthology Crooked Words, the character Chris asks to be called by "they" pronouns. Chris is in the short stories "Blue Paint, Chocolate and Other Similes" and "Everything In A Name."<ref>K. A. Cook, ''Crooked Words''. Unpaged.</ref>
*In Becky Chambers' novel A Psalm for the Wild-Built, the monk protagonist, Sibling Dex, is referred to with they/them pronouns. <ref>Linda Codega, "An Elegy for the Rest of Us: A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers" https://www.tor.com/2021/07/13/book-reviews-a-psalm-for-the-wild-built-becky-chambers/
*In Becky Chambers' novel A Psalm for the Wild-Built, the monk protagonist, Sibling Dex, is referred to with they/them pronouns. <ref>Linda Codega, "An Elegy for the Rest of Us: A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers" https://www.tor.com/2021/07/13/book-reviews-a-psalm-for-the-wild-built-becky-chambers/</ref>


== Singular they in use for real nonbinary people ==
== Singular they in use for real nonbinary people ==