Pronouns are tricky. Writing correspondence or copy with your users preferred pronoun in mind is even harder.
Wanting to break out of the gender binary damn near impossible - until now. django-pronouns is here to help!
When a user is signing up, they can select their preferred pronouns (usually disguised as a gender option).
The usual suspects (s/he) are there, as well as more neutral ones (they, it, xir, etc). Using them in your
copy is as simple as working out which form you need, and django-pronouns will do the rest. Observe:
>>> "{{ user.pronoun.subject|title }} is awesome."
"She is awesome"
>>> "It is {{ user.name|pluralize }} birthday today. Go wish {{ user.pronoun.object }} happy birthday!"
"It is Tims birthday today. Go wish him happy birthday!"
>>> "{{ user.name }} looked at {{ user.pronoun.reflexive }} in the mirror"
"Alex looked at himself in the mirror"
>>> "{{ user.pronoun.possessive_determiner|title }} stuff is on the table."
"Her stuff is on the table"
>>> "This guitar is {{ user.pronoun.possessive_pronoun }}"
"This guitar is hers"
If working out which form is too annoying, we can help there as well. Each of the five forms has a number of aliases, consisting of the feminine and masculine forms joined with an underscore, as well as the (new) Spivak forms:
- Subject:
he_she,she_he,ey - Object:
him_her,her_him,em - Reflexive:
himself_herself,herself_himself,emself - Possessive determiner:
his_her,her_his,eir - Possessive pronoun:
his_hers,hers_his,eirs
Spivak was chosen as it is one of the only forms that is unambiguous across all five forms.