s/he

• (s)he, he/she

• IPA^(key): /hi ɔː(ɹ) ʃi/

s/he (third person singular, plural they)

1. he or she
   • 2020 March 14, Martin Belam, “Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV leader Genesis Breyer P-Orridge dies aged 70”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Born as Neil Andrew Megson in Manchester, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge grew up in Essex. S/he was a member of radical art collective COUM Transmissions in the late 1960s, and went on to form Throbbing Gristle with Cosey Fanni Tutti, Peter Christopherson and Chris Carter.

This term is used as a gender-neutral third person singular pronoun. One common use is on paper forms.

• (sometimes proscribed; grammatically plural but semantically singular) they
• (sometimes proscribed) he
• (arbitrarily) she

• wo/man

• EH&S, EHS, Esh, HSE, ehs, esh, he's, hes, hse