he/him
Not she/her
He/him indicates masculine third-person singular pronouns, typically used when someone specifies how they wish to be referred to: My pronouns are he/him.
The phrase appears in social media bios, email signatures, and introductions as a way of signaling gender identity or normalizing the practice of stating pronouns.
Sometimes extended to he/him/his.
Male in character
third-person · singular · subject · object · grammatical · referent · antecedent · gendered
Gender differs from assignment
- nonbinaryOutside male-female categories
- gender-affirmingSupporting authentic identity expression
- pronounsNoun substitutes
- cisgenderBirth-sex-identified
LGBTQ · coming-out · deadname · misgendering · respect · preferred · chosen · affirming
masculine
Male in character
gender · third-person · singular · subject · object · grammatical · referent · antecedent · gendered · binary
patriarch
Male head of family
husband · king · lord · master · sir · gentleman · heir · mankind · chairman · fireman
transgender
Gender differs from assignment
- nonbinaryOutside male-female categories
- gender-affirmingSupporting authentic identity expression
- pronounsNoun substitutes
cisgender · LGBTQ · coming-out · deadname · misgendering · respect · preferred · chosen · affirming · visibility
- identityidentity, personal identity, self, selfhood, self-expression
- LGBTQ+gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer
- transgendertrans women, trans men, trans woman, trans man, transwoman
- Queer Culturegay, drag culture, lesbian, bisexual, transgender