Since many given names in Turkish are also gender-neutral, it is possible to describe someone without their sex being made known.

These honorifics are gender-neutral ( can be used for males and females ), though some are more used for men or women (- kun is primarily used for males, while-chan is primarily used for women ) and can be attached to first names as well as surnames, for example, Peter-san, Jessica-san, Smith-san.

However, a few given names, such as Dominique ( see above: completely gender-neutral ), Claude ( traditionally masculine ) and Camille ( traditionally masculine, now mostly feminine ), are given to both males and females ; in medieval times, a woman was often named Philippe ( Philippa ), now an exclusively masculine name ( Philip ), or a male Anne ( Ann ), now almost exclusively feminine ( except as second or third given name, mostly in Brittany ).

The gender of the figure has also changed over the years: from a clearly male, to a gender-neutral child, to a small girl.

It would have involved three major measures: firstly, the change of the form of primogeniture used from male-preference to gender-neutral ( absolute ) primogeniture — that is, that the eldest child would succeed regardless of gender ; secondly, that the Acts of Union 1707, both in Scotland and in England, as well as other relevant legislation, be altered to remove the clauses forbidding the monarch or heirs from marrying any Catholic ; and, thirdly, the revocation of the Royal Marriages Act 1772, which requires descendants of King George II ( other than descendants of princesses who married foreigners ) to obtain the Sovereign's consent to marry.

Some feel the use of the singular " they " sounds like a grammatical error, but according to some references, " they ", " their ", and " them " have long been grammatically acceptable as gender-neutral singular pronouns in English:

Many editing houses, corporations, and government bodies have official policies in favor of in-house use of gender-neutral language.

Different authorities have presented guidelines on whether and how to use gender-neutral, or " non-sexist " language.

Standards advocated by supporters of the gender-neutral modification in English have been applied differently and to differing degrees among English speakers worldwide.

Various criticisms have been leveled against the use of gender-neutral language, most focusing on specific usages, such as the use of " human " for " man " and " he or she " for " he ".

Though not in widespread use, they have been employed in gender-neutral language by some people who dislike the more common alternatives " he / she " or singular they.

* The gender-neutral fisher has been used for fisherman ; however, in Canada, Australia, Britain, Ireland and elsewhere many women who catch fish have inveighed harshly against this, demanding to be called fishermen, which they argued was the correct gender-neutral term to describe their career choice.

Different languages have different word classes as open class and closed class – for example, in English, pronouns are closed class and verbs are open class ( see for example the contentious topic of gender-neutral pronouns in English and how common verbing is ), while in Japanese, pronouns are open class, while verbs are closed class – to form a new verb, one suffixes 〜 する (- suru, " to do ") to a noun – for example, " to exercise " is 運動する – " to do exercise ".

Such schemes were originally known as " workman's compensation ," but today, most jurisdictions have adopted the term " workers ' compensation " as a gender-neutral alternative.

Fathers ' rights activists seek a gender-neutral approach in which unwed men and women would have equal rights in adoption issues.

The language was modernized to remove archaic pronouns (" thee ", " thou ") and their corresponding verbs (" didst ", " speaketh ") which the RSV had maintained in passages the translators considered to refer to God ( which proponents of historical Christian interpretation also objected to, as archaic verbiage was not retained when addressing Christ, which was interpreted as an implicit denial of Christ's divinity ; also, breaking with tradition, the RSV did not capitalize passages of the Old Testament that have been traditionally interpreted as prophecies of Christ ), to remove obsolete words ( e. g., " jug " for " cruse "), and to introduce a moderate amount of horizontal gender-neutral language.

* using gender-neutral pronouns that have long-since entered common usage, such as singular they, without employing uncommonly used ( and thus attention-calling ) neologistic gender-neutral pronouns such as " thon ", " hu ", " xe ", " sie " and " hir " or the spivak pronoun construction ( see gender-neutral pronoun, ' spivak pronoun ').

In recent years, however, most state schools have switched to the gender-neutral " head teacher " as the official title.

Languages which do not have a gender-neutral pronoun usually refer to him by either the male or the female pronoun ; the choice of either is often a source of much contention.

There are exceptions to this rule: those who have excelled in sports and other activities can be awarded a special emblem for their blazer pocket ( an " honours pocket "), and those who represent the school for Ulster or Ireland may be awarded an " honours blazer "-this is a red blazer with an honours pocket and is gender-neutral.

However, males and females have separate campuses, with gender-neutral buildings in the middle of the campus.

The RSV observed the older convention of using masculine nouns in a gender-neutral sense ( e. g. " man " instead of " person "), and in some cases used a masculine word where the source language used a neuter word.

While it differentiates a small number of male and female nouns such as patro ( father ) and patrino ( mother ), most nouns are gender-neutral and the use of it is not necessary.

In the Community of Christ, part of the Latter Day Saints movement, the term patriarchal blessing was renamed " evangelist's blessing " in 1985, to reflect the change in terminology from patriarch to the gender-neutral " Evangelist " when women were first ordained to offices of the Priesthood.

Proponents of gender-neutral language often point to the history of the word " man " to argue that, although the word once referred to both males and females, it no longer does so unambiguously.

Whereas in the general case, there is often no appropriate singular gender-neutral replacement ( e. g. the third person singular pronoun he ) ( although the use of singular they is increasingly common ), there are gender-neutral versions of nearly all job titles.

Grammatically, gender-neutral language ( such as gender neutrality in English ) is exemplified by the use of a gender-neutral pronoun, although this is sometimes confused with the neuter grammatical gender.

( Shmoos are usually portrayed as gender-neutral, although Capp sidesteps this issue to allow the comic plot twist.

Churchmanship is a way of talking about and labelling different tendencies, parties, or schools of thought within the Church of England and the sister churches of the Anglican Communion ( although now in most official contexts the gender-neutral word " tradition " is preferred ).

There does exist in Filipino an equivalent, gender-neutral term for the professional that carries the more general notion of " healer ", traditional ( for example, an albuláryo ) or otherwise: manggagámot.

A person in charge of the homemaking, who isn't employed outside the home, is in the U. S. and Canada often called a homemaker, a gender-neutral term for a housewife or a househusband.

The term " Awo " is a gender-neutral title for an initiated priest of Orunmila.

Efforts in a court case to argue that " he " excluded women were dismissed by the Irish Supreme Court, which ruled the term " gender-neutral ".

They usually answer to a senior prefect known as the Head of School ( though in Canada, Head of School is more often seen as a gender-neutral term for headmaster or headmistress ) or Head Prefect or Head Boy or Head Girl or Senior Prefect.

By the end of the 1970s, the term stewardess had generally been replaced by the gender-neutral alternative flight attendant.

The gender-neutral term Player of the Match is usually substituted for " Man of the Match " in women's team competitions.

The term " spokesperson " is gender-neutral language which uses a gender-neutral job title.

Fisher is an archaic term for fisherman, revived as gender-neutral.

The Fraternity views " Brothers " as a gender-neutral term.

Homemaker is a mainly American gender-neutral term for a housewife or also a stay-at-home dad.

The term “ mail carrier ” came to be used as a gender-neutral substitute for “ mailman ” soon after women began performing the job.

In modern English, they are also known by the gender-neutral term " monastics.

A gender-neutral term is honor attendant.

The term was ( and, where still used, is ) gender-neutral.

Russell ’ s intention was to politicize the term, and bring attention to the misogyny driving these lethal crimes against women, which she said gender-neutral terms like murder don ’ t do.

It is American slang for a female traffic warden, now officially known by the gender-neutral term parking attendant.

In Scandinavia and Finland, the word heterofil is a gender-neutral term, like " heterosexual " in Canada and the United States.