What would a non binary teacher be addressed as?

[GemGEmGemster]

dd’s school expects all teachers to be addressed as ‘sir’ or ‘miss’. She’s just asked me what a non binary teacher would be called. Any ideas?

Surely it would be better to ask the teacher themselves what they'd like to be called rather than asking on here

I mean if they identify as neither gender

Siss? Mir?

Good point..I like her thinking.

I saw a thing in a kids magazine where their teacher was non binary and called themselves 'Teacher Jones'.

Good question!

In my secondary it would have been "oi you!" If being polite or "oi, dickhead!" more usually.

You would ask them what they wanted to be called.

Pronouns - Miss, Mrs, Sir are based on a persons sex, and not gender.

Actually, we just found this which has answered our question nonbinary.wiki/wiki/Gender_neutral_titles#:~:text=A%20gender%20neutral%20title%20is,first%20or%20last%20name%20only.

@KindergartenKop

I saw a thing in a kids magazine where their teacher was non binary and called themselves 'Teacher Jones'.

That would be so much better for everyone. I hate being called Miss, but the alternates are usually worse

Mx?

At my child’s school, they call the teacher MX ( pronounced Mux)

Mx

So Mx Smith

And yes, obviously one would ask the person in question how they wanted to be addressed. It was a hypothetical conversation. There is no teacher. Yet. We’re both just trying to understand about different gender identifications.

@Soontobe60

Pronouns - Miss, Mrs, Sir are based on a persons sex, and not gender.

This is obviously untrue, it is perfectly normal to use a person's preferred pronouns and titles in all walks of life.

@TickleMyPickle

At my child’s school, they call the teacher MX ( pronounced Mux)

Do they say it with a straight face?

[quote GemGEmGemster]Actually, we just found this which has answered our question nonbinary.wiki/wiki/Gender_neutral_titles#:~:text=A%20gender%20neutral%20title%20is,first%20or%20last%20name%20only.[/quote]
Good Lord it’s all very complicated isn’t it?

Well I’m Mrs Kimdoo but I always get called Miss. I’ve never been asked for my pronouns but the students, ever. They just called me Miss upon sight. I think they’d get either Sir or Miss depending on what the students assumed their title to be. I would always prefer my actually name and dislike Miss but that’s not how it works in schools really. They could try and insist on Mx or something but probably on the whole they’d get called Miss or Sir.

My dd has a non binary teacher. Their title is Mx, referred to as Mx surname

Miss is not the equivalent of Sir. It just can’t be. It doesn’t sound remotely close in terms of the respect or deference or whatever Sir commands.

How do you pronounce Mx?!

I’d presume that the teacher would let the class know what they want to be called (as I can’t think of one!)