- Ms. Cantwell came out as nonbinary, and told us to call them Mx. Cantwell.
Mx.
analogy noun
A gender neutral form of the honorary Mr., Mrs., or Ms. Pronounced “mix.”
Etymology : First used in print in 1977, proposed as a variant of Mr. and Ms. but using the letter ‘x’ as a wildcard.
Source : Heard in conversation in October of 2020, etymology sourced from https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Mx.
Last modified: 19 November 2020