Who knows what 'Mx' is?

[Eckhart]

I'm just wondering how many people have heard of 'Mx' as a title. It can be used by either gender, and is increasingly accepted when filling in online forms and suchlike.
I use it - it's on my driving licence even, but some of the drop down menus don't have it as an option. My favourite is EDF electricity who have Mr, Miss, Mrs, Ms, Dr, Prof., Corporal, Sergeant, Sergeant Major, and a MASSIVE list of other military ones, then Sir, Dame, Lady etc... but no 'Mx'.
I'm just wondering how many people have even heard of it.

Mx (usually pronounced /mɪks/ MIKS or /mʌks/ MUKS and sometimes /ɛmˈɛks/ em-EKS) is an English language neologistic honorific that does not indicate gender.

Not my words, I googled (I can see this thread has gone on to six pages now so I'm probably not the only one.

I'm glad to know that Mx is an English language neologistic honorific that does not indicate gender, I'll sleep well tonight as a result of that.

I think not using titles at all would be preferable unless dr, reverend etc Otherwise all they do is point out sex. They are used much less frequently I think anyway.

@hirsutefirs You would stop being their friend?

I've heard of it via MN. Never ever come across it in real life though.

@Bluerussian That really made me laugh

Gender is nonsense, and Mx is ridiculous.

“@hirsutefirs You would stop being their friend?”

That’s quite a vindictive thing to presume.

If a friend of mine starting using this, I would question both their intelligence and the friendship tbh.

@Hirsutefirs Didn't presume anything, just wondered if that was what you meant?

@SirVixofVixHall Why would it make you question their intelligence?

“@Hirsutefirs Didn't presume anything, just wondered if that was what you meant?”

I meant just what I wrote:

I know what I would do.

There's a Labour parliamentary candidate in North Yorkshire who uses it.

I've heard of it. I'd like to use it
BUT just like Ms often is assumed to mean divorced rather than 'it's none of your business', Mx has/will come to mean someone who doesn't identify as the sex they are, rather than being a universal term.

There are still far too many (IMO) women who want to shout their marital status to anyone who wants their name
(AND in case anyone thinks it's an age thing I'm 64)

I would , as a pp said, assume that the person was now in the uber woke brigade, and ime the uber woke brigade tend to be rather dim.

Ive been aware of it for some time now but only because my job involves building HR systems. I've only ever seen it once, on an NHS website.

To me people that use it are attention seeking, the same as people who identify as non binary.

@Nearlyadoctor I'm sure some are. The ones who are the squeaky wheel. Personally, most who know me probably don't know I use it, since we don't use titles between ourselves. It mainly gets used on forms, which barely get seen by anybody. I don't get any attention because of it, it's just a box I tick.

@Eckhart but why not just tick Mr/Mrs/Miss - genuinely interested, at the end of the day we’re all born male or female. I appreciate there are a few people who are unhappy with their gender. It’s just seems to be ‘trendy’ not to identify as one or the other.

I know what it is.

I use Ms in daily life because since I was 14 I have objected to women’s pronoun being defined by her marital status.

I would use Mx on a form where they really do not need to know what sexual or gender I am... getting something delivered by post for example.

But not in daily life because I don’t know how to pronounce it. If it became a common usage I would.

I don’t keep that kind of company tbh.

It means 'minx'.

@Nearlyadoctor RTFT, I explained earlier.

@BlouseAndSkirt - I don’t see you are defined by it. I think Ms is pretentious, do people really care if you a Miss or Mrs I think not in this day and age. It just ticks a box and for me I know if a patient is male or female before they walk in my consulting room, totally irrelevant if they’re married/ divorced etc

@zafferana Haha! Mx Minx, the new, woke, 'Mr Man' book!

I saw this today for the very first time ever (on an online form on the local council website) and I had no idea what it meant. It was the first option on the drop down menu. What does it actually mean, what word does it refer to (Mr is for Mister and so on. Could Mx be for Mix). Does anyone even use this?