Davis Stephens

11/24/16

The Experts

Dr. Milton

Should Gender pronouns such as They,

Research Report

It and Ze be used and accepted into our

English 101

society. I have accessed four sources that

have helped to give information on the
subject of Gender pronouns. One of the four
sources were She? Ze? They? Whats In a

Introduction

Gender Pronoun by Jessica Bennett. In this

Gender is continuously being questioned by

article Bennett gives information on people's

many people in the LGBT community. I

opinions on gender, sexuality, and the use

think we, and particularly young people,

of gender pronouns. In Bennetts article she

increasingly view gender not as a given, but

quotes Julie Mencher, a psychotherapist in

as a choice, not as a distinction between

Northampton, Mass saying I think we, and

male and female, but as a spectrum,

particularly young people, increasingly view

regardless of whats down there, said Julie

gender not as a given, but as a choice, not

Mencher. Gender is a big part of seuality.

as a distinction between male and female,

There are diffrent sexualitys like Bisexual,

but as a spectrum, regardless of whats

Pansexual, Genderqueer, and many more.

down there,. Bennett is saying that people

Through certain sexualitys like

especially young people view gender as a

Genderqueer, gender pronouns are used to

choice and believe they can change their

identify people who either identify

gender from their designated gender given

themselves as Male or Female, both, or

at birth.

neither. Gender pronouns such as They,

It and Ze, should be used and accepted
into society.

A second source I used called Facebook

her believe that the term Man is a broad

multiplies genders but offers users the

term and the term includes all human

same three tired pronouns by Dennis

beings. Ray uses quotes from very well

Baron. In this source Baron talks about how

known and used sources such as the Bible

Facebook has allowed their users to pick

and the Declaration of Independence. All

between 56 addition genders then the

men are created equal" says the

usual. Facebook allowed genders such as

Declaration of Independence. "God made

agender, cis, gender variant, intersex, trans

man in His own image," says the Bible.

person, and two-spirit. Baron also gives

Allegedly, it is obvious to anyone reading

background information on how famous

these words that the Apostles and the

grammarians such as James Anderson,

Founding Fathers meant to refer to all

have been trying to make pronouns that

human beings. But is it?- Carolyn Ray.

identify multiple people in one pronouns in a

Carolyn Rays disagrees with the idea of all

feminine and masculine way. In 1792 the

these different genders and gender

Scottish grammarian James Anderson

pronouns such as Cisgender, Ze,

argued that English would be better served

Genderqueer and believe that the term

if we sorted our words into more than the

Man refers to all human beings.

traditional masculine, feminine, and

neuter.- James Anderson

In my last source titled He? She? Ze?

Colleges add gender-free pronouns, alter

The third source I used titled Does the

policy by Collin Binkley. This source gives

Term 'Man' Include All Human Beings? --

information on how schools are creating

OR -- Are Women Men?

Gender equality and giving their students of

by Carolyn Ray disagrees with my study of

the LGBT community more freedom.

gender pronouns being used and accepted

Binkley goes over how schools like Harvard

into society. In the article Carolyn Ray gives

University, American University, and many

more are allowing their student to use there

Does the Term 'Man' Include All Human

gender pronouns in their application and in

Beings? -- OR -- Are Women Men?

their classes. During the registration

by Carolyn Ray disagrees with with all the

process at Harvard University, students are

other sources on havening gender pronouns

now allowed to indicate which pronouns

and all the different gender we have now

they use, with suggested gender-neutral

because Carolyn Rats believes that there is

options like ze or they.. Binkley also

no use for them. In source 4 He? She? Ze?

gives another example of how schools are

Colleges add gender-free pronouns, alter

creating gender equality by quoting Burke

policy by Collin Binkley one thing I would

said the university is planning to train faculty

have liked to have learned was how the

members how to look up a students

actions that the schools made caused and

pronouns, and explain their significance.

problems with the board of education,

which helps the staff make their students

parent, or students this does not affect.

more comfortable.
Method
The four sources helped give background
information on how and why gender
pronouns are used. The sources also
helped give information on how people view
gender pronouns and how schools, people,
and communities are making an effort to
use gender pronouns and have more
gender equality. The sources one, two, and
four all support the ideas of gender
pronouns and gender equality. Source 3

To get more information for my study if

Gender pronouns such as They, It and
Ze, should be used and accepted into
society. I conducted a Questionnaire Survey

online on Survey Monkey. To get the

and how much it affected them. Through the

information I sent my link to twenty six

results of the question I got to see who was

participants that are age 18 and over.Eight

against the idea of accepting gender

people identified themselves as Man.

equality,who agreed with the idea. The

Sixteen people identified as Woman. Two

results also showed how many people were

people identified themselves as other.

not comfortable with answering the

My survey titled Gender Identity had ten

questions truthfully by a lot of participants

questions that asked questions about

putting Neutral to some of the questions.

gender equality.

The participants choosing Neutral also

proves that people in our society identify
themselves as neither Man or Woman.

Discussion
Results

The survey results ended up being very

informative in people's opinion and thoughts
of gender equality and gender pronouns.
The most important finding was question
was three asking Should social Media like
Instagram, Facebook, and etc. allow people
to identify themselves as more than one
gender?. It is the most important finding
because it is interesting how majority of the

The results from the survey helped me get

people who participated answered yes to
information on how well people know about
this question. The results of this question
gender equality. The results also showed
not only referred to one of my sources but
what peoples opinion the the subject was

suggest that people are open to creating

like the college of Harvard in source 4.

more gender equality in our society.

People should care about this topic because

it affects the people around them. Not taking

Conclusion

an action restricts people of being

Through the data I have gained back from

themselves and being comfortable in their

my survey, the data agrees with what the

society.

experts of sources one, two, and four. Data

from my survey challenges the expert in
source three. The thing that seems
important from my data and research is how
people are making an effort to create
gender equality and to inform people on
how and what gender pronouns are used for