eiredrake/django-pronouns_rev

Easy generic pronouns for your users.

django-pronouns - Correctly address your users

Pronouns are tricky. Writing correspondence or copy with your users preferred pronoun in mind is even harder. Wanting to break out of the gender binary damn near impossible - until now. django-pronouns is here to help!

When a user is signing up, they can select their preferred pronouns (usually disguised as a gender option). The usual suspects (s/he) are there, as well as more neutral ones (they, it, xir, etc). Using them in your copy is as simple as working out which form you need, and django-pronouns will do the rest. Observe:

>>> "{{ user.pronoun.subject|title }} is awesome."
"She is awesome"

>>> "It is {{ user.name|pluralize }} birthday today. Go wish {{ user.pronoun.object }} happy birthday!"
"It is Tims birthday today. Go wish him happy birthday!"

>>> "{{ user.name }} looked at {{ user.pronoun.reflexive }} in the mirror"
"Alex looked at himself in the mirror"

>>> "{{ user.pronoun.possessive_determiner|title }} stuff is on the table."
"Her stuff is on the table"

>>> "This guitar is {{ user.pronoun.possessive_pronoun }}"
"This guitar is hers"

If working out which form is too annoying, we can help there as well. Each of the five forms has a number of aliases, consisting of the feminine and masculine forms joined with an underscore, as well as the (new) Spivak forms:

• Subject: he_she, she_he, ey
• Object: him_her, her_him, em
• Reflexive: himself_herself, herself_himself, emself
• Possessive determiner: his_her, her_his, eir
• Possessive pronoun: his_hers, hers_his, eirs

Spivak was chosen as it is one of the only forms that is unambiguous across all five forms.