Tim Carmody, writing for Kottke.org:

“Mx.” (pronounced “mix” or “mux”) is a gender-neutral honorific. It’s used by people who don’t want to be identified by gender, whether their gender identity isn’t well-represented by the older forms, or they just don’t want to offer that information or assume it when addressing someone else. “Mx.” was added to Merriam Webster’s unabridged dictionary in April, has begun to be used on official forms in the UK (the Royal Bank of Scotland has been an early adopter), and appeared in two recent stories in the New York Times, once as a preferred honorific for a Barnard College student who doesn’t identify as male or female, and once in a story about “Mx.” itself.

This is fantastic, and personally gratifying. I’ve been writing for most of my life, and battling editors over this sort of thing since the very beginning. For me (and most writers, I think), the issue was the use of he or she when referring to “the user” or someone whose gender is not specified.

My approach was always to use “they” instead of he or she. My editors hated that. They’d red pencil all the theys and I’d dutifully put them all back in. Back and forth. Heated emails, then phone calls. But check my books. They. Not he or she.

Not that Mx. fixes that problem, but it does address a similar issue. And I say, bravx.