Mr, Mrs, Ms Or Miss? No It's Mx.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2318863/Brighton-Council-adopts-new-MX-title-transgender-population.html

I wonder how they ever managed without this title before?

It's a good job that I am not a Brighton and Hove council tax payer.

[wolf63]

It is slow on a Saturday and it may be that your usual pals are not here. I didn't see this in the Scottish version of the Mail.

I was actually getting annoyed earlier about having to use a title on a form that I was filling in online. Maybe it is time to ditch the titles completely.

Is Brighton not a pretty upmarket place?

[jackthehat]

And if you were, quite how would it affect you, AOG?

[craft1948]

I always liked Cousin It................

[Svejk]

Don't know about AOG, Jack, but I'd have thought there were more pressing matters to concern themselves with.

[jackthehat]

Things that might include the electorate of B&H?

Looks like they have done that...

[Svejk]

Yes indeed, and if this is the sort of thing that concerns voters in B&H good luck to them.

[sir.prize]

Mx = Mixter?

Mx = Mixtup is better.

[jim360]

Well if that is genuinely what such people want does it really hurt anyone else to deny them? The aim should be that everyone in a society feels included in that society.

[sp1814]

AOG

What's your problem with this?

What has this got to do with taxes?

[Cloverjo]

But does anyone want to be called Mixter? There must be a better way. Why not just M. for people who don't identify with a gender?

[chaptazbru]

I prefer Ms to Miss. Miss sounds sooo old fashioned !

[anotheoldgit]

sir.prize

/// Mx = Mixtup is better. ///

I don't know about that, but it seem a much more less insulting description than can be found in the Urban Dictionary, which begins:

/// a non-conventional title of respect for someone who identifies as ///

Which I consider not in the least a bit respectful.

[Cloverjo]

I am not married, and I hate being called Ms. Miss sounds polite to me rather than old-fashioned.

[whiskeryron]

What about the prefix PN (for person)

WR.

[chaptazbru]

Each to their own !

[anotheoldgit]

Cloverjo

/// There must be a better way. Why not just M. for people who don't identify with a gender? ///

Now I have seen most of the James Bond films and I never knew M was transgender. :0)

[anotheoldgit]

sp1814

*** What has this got to do with taxes? ***

/// Yesterday the council's policy and resources committee approved a series of measures, including the removal of the need for patients to choose from male or female options when they check in at electronic screens on arrival at a GP surgery. ///

/// Other recommendations include ensuring all councillors and police staff undertake trans awareness training and introducing gender neutral toilets and changing rooms, suggested by the council's trans-equality scrutiny panel. ///

And how much do you think this little exercise will cost the Brighton Council Tax payer, when such money could be better spent on much more pressing items?

[sir.prize]

To above public toilets will be

Gents

Ladies

Newts

[THECORBYLOON]

I'm sure that there was a cost implication when the title "Ms" became popular enough to start appearing on various documents but I don't see folk mumping about that now.

[THECORBYLOON]

As a matter of interest anotheoldgit, how much WILL it cost?