Wondering how to refer to my sister's daughter now?

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I always referred to her as my niece - but she is going into a sort of non-gender stage..... Her name is a very neutral one now. But I still cannot stop referring to her (them??) as my niece. Relation/ships are usually gender specific, and a bit hard to avoid using I have found, but I really don't want to offend. It is the "non-gender" bit that is causing me some difficulty.
Help......

Childs name.
Claire’s eldest.
Cousin Ash.

Its easy to avoid. And politic too. I focus on the structural bollocks that is gender ideology and avoid the personal.

How about “My niece, who’s going through a phase”?

This- and if anyone asks further you can say “Joanna’s (whatever your sisters name is) eldest/ youngest. If it’s family- they should know who it is anyway!

Niece

This.

Niece. Keep things accurate

Just call her your niece. The daft 'non-binary' thing is not going to last forever and I imagine, eventually, she'll regard you as the cool aunt who saw past it all.

How is she going to relate to all those adults who bought into it, once she's well past it?

These are my sister's children. You are overthinking this OP

Just call them by their chosen name and make sure you use the correct pro noun in context. Its really not difficult. No need to use niece / nephew. If talking about them. "My sisters eldest/ youngest Alex"

She's your niece. I'd continue to call her exactly what she is...

God there are some right arse holes on here. Pray to God you don't end up in a situation such as OPs especially if its a child of your own..

"My temporarily bewildered niece"?

I don't think the 'it's not that difficult' line really works in reality.

I can see how niblings might work as shorthand for multiple (mixed) nieces and nephews - if people commonly knew the word - but not with just one.

It will go:
"I'm meeting my nibling this afternoon."
"Nibling?! What does that mean?!"
"Niblings are nieces and nephews."
"Ah, well, that's a new word I've learned, then! And which one is it you're meeting later - your niece or your nephew?"
"Ummmmmm...."

Defo nibling

Just yawn your head off because this time next year "non binary" identities will be so out of fashion.

Unless you take the new notion of 'non-binary' seriously, then that's a good way of putting it!!

shes still your niece its a load of bollocks

😂absolutely this!

niece - or sister's child.

In my view she cannot be non-gender (another thread recently deleted regarding a similar theme - don't know why.) In my view this is just a phase and will I hope pass - far too many young people dragged down this potentially dangerous rabbit hole

Neice.

What's the word when an aunt or uncle are non-binary?

As in the reverse of nibling.

Nibbling doesn't make sense to me, as it sounds like sibling, but niece and nephew is a generation down, not the same generation as siblings are.

Nildren/nild would make more sense.

Sisters child their name

Sureky one is older? My sister’s youngest or eldest…

Some safe options

Son/Daughter 》Child/Offspring
Brother/Sister 》Sibling.
Neice/Nephew 》Nibling.

Just ask them what they would prefer