Sen. Elizabeth Warren recently became the latest 2020 presidential candidate to publicly list the pronouns by which she likes to be addressed.
According to their Twitter bios, the Massachusetts Democrat joined both New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, whose preferred pronouns are “He/Him,” and former Housing Secretary Julián Castro, whose pronouns of choice are also “He/Him,” though he also gives “Él” for any Spanish-speaking followers.
“Elizabeth is committed to running an inclusive campaign, and wants every person to know that they are welcome in this movement,” a campaign spokesperson for Warren told NBC News.
The declared pronouns are the latest in a series of gestures to the transgender and nonbinary community, a bloc to which the 2020 Democratic candidates have made repeated appeals.
In the first Democratic primary debate in June, LGBT rights was a prominent issue, with Democratic New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker specifically lamenting that “we do not talk enough about trans Americans, especially African American trans Americans and the incredibly high rates of murder now.”
In the same debate, Castro expressed his support for “reproductive justice,” and asserted that such would not exist until trans women can get abortions. “What that means is that just because a woman, or let’s also not forget someone in the trans community, a trans female, is poor, doesn’t mean they shouldn’t have the right to exercise that right to choose,” he said. Castro later took flak for confusing trans women with trans men.
