#im just so happy he was trying

I started a new remote job last week, and I’m the only genderqueer person at the company (and the first person who uses neo pronouns that anyone on my team has ever met, apparently).

So far:

• Manager carefully wrote down spelling and pronunciation of my pronouns and told everyone on the team to respect them.
• Coworker apologized privately for misgendering me (I hadn’t told her yet) and said she will practice.
• Guy on another team valiantly tried to use my pronouns and ended up saying something like zirzs-zhizz (I DM’d him and thanked him for trying and linked him to a practice site).
• Teammate told me he has written out my pronouns and how to use them in a sentence and literally taped it to his monitor so he can practice.
• Teammate also referred to me as compañereafter I linked to a comic about gender-neutral endings in Spanish (whole team except me + 1 other person speaks Spanish as first language and they held all meetings in Spanish before the two of us started).

I am so stoked that people are actually trying.