Butch Pronouns - A Questionaire

[Nat]

Was going back through some older threads today and thought the survey results for this turned out interestingly.

So the largest portion of each identity chose the option that y'all/we try never to use default pronouns for butches.

Then it gets interesting. Femmes split down the middle between "he" and "she", but if you add in the 5 femmes who use "hy," that means the majority of femmes who use a default pronoun are phonetically defaulting to what sounds like "he."

More interestingly - to me - because I feel like femmes bear the brunt of the pronoun burden at times - butches by far default to "he" or "hy" compared with "she" when using a default pronoun for butches.

And the trend continues amongst trans folks - only one stating they default to "she" for butches.

I personally continue to be frustrated with my own brain - often calling some butches "she" when I know they are "hy" or "he" and then calling other butches "he" when I know they are she. I don't tend to accidentally "hy" people these days. I do try, but I definitely appreciate butches who are easy-going about their pronouns. ha.