Samantha Kubo

Instead of having users take up limited character space in their bio, Instagram is now letting them select their pronouns in a specific section of their profile. Users can choose from a variety of pronouns including he/him, she/her and they/them. Once selected, their pronoun preference will appear in small gray letters next to their username. “They” is often used as a singular pronoun for a person “whose gender is intentionally not revealed” or “to refer to a single person whose gender identity is nonbinary,” according to Merriam-Webster, which selected “they” as word of the year in 2019. The company said the […]