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.

@Nearlyadoctor We so nearly agree. My point is it doesn't matter so why should we state it, and your point is it doesn't matter so we should state it. I can understand why we might need a m/f box to tick for medical purposes, but why do we need a m/f box to do anything else? You might be comfortable stating it, but lots of people have reasons that they are not comfortable stating it. Why can't they have a box that suits them too? What harm does it do?

@Branster Yes, people use it. Someone on the thread said it's short for 'Mixter' which is gender neutral. If you're doing Mr = Mister, then Ms = what? Mrs = what? I thought 'Mx' was like that until today.

How do you say it? mix Mzzzzzxxxx

@Eckhart - we don’t, ideally a title box is not needed anymore, long gone are the days where a woman needed her husbands signature etc to get a credit card.
I suppose my difficulty is understanding why people are so bothered by acknowledging/admitting their gender(I’m not even sure the right way to word it)
I recently went to the theatre and looked in the programme to see if the person playing a tomboy part was male or female. It just said they identified as none binary and their name wasn’t obviously male or female - at the end of the day it didn’t matter their acting of the part was excellent but I was interested if they a male or female playing the part.

That’s a ‘we don’t need it ‘ not we don’t nearly agree @Eckhart

I work with a Mx, had never heard of it before September though.

I was talking to DH about this today. I saw it on a drop down list when filling an online form. I hadn't seen it before.

@Nearlyadoctor out of interest, why do you think Ms is pretentious? I use it because I don’t understand why I should publicly declare my marital status in my title when men don’t declare theirs (and both are equally irrelevant)

@Nearlyadoctor I know what you mean. For me, if someone is uncomfortable accepting/admitting/sharing something about themselves, and there's no need for them to, then I don't feel it's for me to question. It doesn't matter how curious I am. If I don't need to know and they don't want to tell me, it's none of my business.

I only know about it through mn. I’ve asked in my office before to see if it were more widely known, and no-one had heard of it.

@BendNSnap There's quite a few on the thread who've only recently heard of it, and a few who haven't until the thread. I think it's becoming more widely recognised, and more and more organisations are adding it to their forms as an option.

I only knew Mx was an option just recently. I came across it in one of the transgender clinics at my work.

My initial thoughts is that this person identified as non binary? But I guess that's not always the case.

@SyntheticPumpkin - I don’t think people should necessarily have to declare their marital status , but in my experience people who use Ms obviously think people are that bothered if they’re married or not. If someone is Miss or Mrs I don’t think people bat an eyelid but Ms is nearly a look at me I’m not telling you if I’m married, single, divorced type status and draws more attention to them. Not sure if I’ve worded that very well and it’s just my opinion / experience.

MX - M is 1000 x is ten hence 1010 sorry being factious but if I don't want to id myself by gender I use first initial than sire name/ whoops/ last name - unfortunately when we named ds we unintentionally used a name which begins with same letter as me

@mumwon Ha! I should have got that!
Yes, first initial and surname works except when there's a box with an asterisk.

@StylishMummy Brave of you to come out on a thread.

Only ever seen the typical salutations on forms, or "other".

Thank you Eckhart. This new title will, no doubt, confuse people learning the English language!

@Nearlyadoctor I get what you mean. In my field it tends to default to Ms, so it just feels normal now and it actually feels quite jarring to me if a woman chooses something else - almost screams LOOK AT ME, I AM MARRIED

I started using Ms because it’s not that I think anyone cares about my marital status but it’s a minor protest about a way in which women are treated differently from men!

@StylishMummy well seeing as mumsnet will ban you for transphobia you're correct, you will be out.

@Branster Probably. Which is a shame, what with English being such a simple language to learn otherwise

I've heard of it.

What it means is that it identifies you as an attention seeking knob.

@PineappleDanish Why so critical?

Eckhart
There isn’t much of a fuss regarding this gender or sex debate in a lot of other countries that I know of, so you’d need to first understand the concept to know how to use the title properly.