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[alexseanchai]

So answer in comments please:

(1) How worried should I be about making sure every instance of Rae-PoV narration pronouns referring to Rae are ze/zir instead of she/her, given that ze's female-agender genderfluid? I keep writing zir as she/her. It's a pain.

(2) When talking about Rae before ze found out about genderqueer, should I use she/her pronouns, or (since it's present-day Rae narrating still) stick with ze/zir?

Comments

[melannen]

Re: the second one, I would also think about your framing of the POV - why is ze telling this story, and how is ze structuring it? If the way zir conception of zir gender is changing is a major thread in the story, then ze might choose to use female pronouns at first in the retelling, and make the switch part of the arc of how ze learned who ze was; if the story as ze's shaping it is mostly not about gender, though, ze might just go with something like 'back then ze didn't know that ze was an option, but ze knew that 'she' didn't work' and then carry on with ze/zir.

[alexseanchai]

In this bit, Rae's relating childhood memories that don't have a hell of a lot to do with gender. "Ze was six when zir father died; ze remembers it clearly" vs "She was six when her father died; ze remembers it clearly" sort of thing.