London: What did ze say? Oxford University wants students to use the gender neutral “ze” instead of “he” or “she” when addressing fellow students.

One of the world’s leading educational institutions has outlined the new guidelines in a students’ union leaflet as part of a move to prevent transgender students being offended, The Sunday Times reported.

You can get away with calling a transgendered woman ‘he’ in India, but not if you want to study in Oxford University. Deliberately using the wrong pronoun for a transgender person is already an offence under Oxford’s behaviour code.

Well, ze should read this too. In a move set to be imposed at Cambridge University too, students hope the use of gender neutral pronouns will be extended to lectures and seminars.

“Gender neutral pronouns are good…It should happen in lectures, too,” said Franky Sissons, a transgender student at King’s College, University of Cambridge.

Last month, an Oxford college became one of the first to introduce gender-neutral lavatories marked ith a new symbol.

St Catherine’s College, which hopes the move will be replicated across the university, unveiled the new lavatories with a sign combining the familiar scientific symbols for male and female.

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