Exipronoun



Exipronouns, paleopronouns, archpronouns or trad pronouns is a term to refer to the “standard” naturally/traditionally existing pronoun sets of a language. They are the opposite of neopronouns. In English exipronouns are he/him, she/her, and they/them, as well as it/its (though some people may consider "it" be a neopronoun, since it's not standard usage when referring to a person).

History
The term exipronoun was coined by Tumblr user Anicrossic on June 30, 2020, and trad pronoun on the same post was coined by trans-kayn. The term paleopronoun was coined by the Tumblr user lgbtqiarchive in August 16th, 2019, and the term archpronoun was coined by Tumblr user carbonated-neon on August 15th, 2019.

Flags
Like other parts of a person's identity, like their gender or orientation (or even their kink or disability), flags may be made specifically for pronouns. Unlike other facets of queer identity, pronoun flags at large don't follow any real common convention. Flags for pronouns vary wildly in design, number of stripes, and symbols used. A pronoun flag format called "pronoun path" is used by Tumblr user mothpride. This refers to a specific design of flag that uses two overlapping stripes, with each flag being unaligned with any identity, just pronouns. The first example of this format being used was posted November 10th, 2020, and the term "pronoun path" was first used in another post the same day.

In 2021, Ezgender designed a proposed "standard pronoun template" and released a free online template for it.

Flag
The exipronoun flag was created by Tumblr user the-gender-collector-emself on July 2, 2020. The stripes each represent a different pronoun set: blue represents he/him, purple represents she/her, green represents it/its, and yellow represents they/them. Orange represents people who use a combination of these pronouns.

Below are flags made for specific exipronouns and combinations of them: