User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-2162194-20130713192557/@comment-1827503-20160126220243

SOTO wrote: The book seems to avoid referring to them (members of this species) as the subject of a sentence without saying their full names. So, rather, than assuming "ze" is correct, it's probably just best to follow suit and avoid using that kind of pronoun for these characters, sticking to hir and hirself. "Sgloomi Po found hirself on..."

If it's absolutely necessary to use such a pronoun in a sentence, ze, I think, should be used, as grammatically it tends to accompany the hir pronoun. We don't have to follow any valid-source rules for pronouns, if a character's gender is given in a valid source. We should use "ze" if necessary, but we shouldn't reword sentences to avoid such a pronoun.