Gender Pronouns

[hazelwindows.livejournal.com]

I had been searching off and on for quite some time for a non-gendered 3rd person pronoun that wasnt "it." I needed this for describing a certain aspect of self as well as when referring to some spiritual/reality states and guides.
Today, I came across "she'he" [pron: sheh'HEE] thanks to another who was speaking of a transvestite in this way.


Come to think of it, her/him statements would probably have to be something like "her'him" as well...


She looked out at the scene.
She'he looked out at the scene. perfect.


It was not all the same to him.
It was not all the same to ...she'him? ...her'im? ...her'he? unclear.


I was wondering, does anyone else have a way of describing the gender-free, the multi-gendered, and the other-gendered?

Comments

[cameoflage.livejournal.com]

You're right; it does sound distant when you're talking about a specific person with a well-defined personality (as opposed to, for example, a hypothetical person of no specific gender used to illustrate a... well, an example, although I was trying to avoid using the same noun twice in one sentence), which is a problem I neglected to think of.

I'm honestly not sure what I'd do to solve that if I was going for recognizability; I'd want to use 'e', but would be concerned about the reader not understanding it or about it seeming unfamiliar and hard to relate to. "She'he" is more obviously recognizable, but it seems to me like a term that would be more appropriate for someone who's both genders at once than whose gender is indeterminate, and the length of it is kind of jarring to someone who's used to pronouns being shorter than that.

"S/he" also occurred to me as a more compact version of "she'he", but only "she" and "he" are easily combined that way. Perhaps you could combine it with the shi and hir system someone mentioned above?

[hazelwindows.livejournal.com]

You sum up the problems here exactly. The implication of the word "she'he" being both genders rather than genderless, indeterminate, or other, if I were talking to someone unfamiliar with the pronoun being used, continues to thwart me. However, for my internal purposes, I can see taking one of the formats already mentioned to personally mean "undesignated gender."

I also have had the feeling that "she'he" might be too long. The ze type pronouns probably are the best it gets. ;)