There should be more widespread gender-neutral titles, for those fence-sitting centrists who aren’t interested in defending normative gender roles but don’t have the wherewithal to transition.
Having said that, if “Dr.” is an example, “Mr.”
would become gender-neutral, with “Mrs.”/“Ms.” becoming archaisms like “Doctrix”. The other alternative is further generalising the relatively novel title Mx, which would also have the benefit of infuriating the TERFs
There should be more widespread gender-neutral titles, for those fence-sitting centrists who aren’t interested in defending normative gender roles but don’t have the wherewithal to transition.
Having said that, if “Dr.” is an example, “Mr.” would become gender-neutral, with “Mrs.”/“Ms.” becoming archaisms like “Doctrix”. The other alternative is further generalising the relatively novel title Mx, which would also have the benefit of infuriating the TERFs