This document describes the proper procedures for referring to
rax using third-person pronouns. It supersedes all previous such documentation.
The correct pronoun for referring to
rax is now "they." This is true whether you are referring to them as
rax , Rax, Rachel, Rach, Kitty-Fox, or any other approved appellation. The pronoun "she" from pronoun release 2.0 is deprecated but still supported; there are not currenly plans to cease supporting this pronoun because the tech industry vertical maintains support for the 2.0 reference API as a requirement. Calls to the 2.0 system may occasionally produce warning messages encouraging you to update your pronoun usage, depending on the context of your statement. Use of the 1.0 pronoun API is explicitly unsupported and may lead to erratic and unexpected results; it is not recommended. If you find old documentation or legacy code that refers to
rax with legacy pronouns, please inform them so that the situation may be remedied.
rax offers limited support for other gender-neutral pronoun calls; while "ey" and "xie" are not explicitly supported, these pronouns have been successful in limited field testing. If there is interest, a patch release may be offered in the future supporting these alternate pronoun sets. Please contact your sales representative for more information.
This change to the pronoun API does not constitute a change in the core
rax gender identities module; no such changes are planned, although all things are possible. For more information about the core gender identities module, please contact Customer Support.
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http://rax.dreamwidth.org/95333.html.