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Submitted by Josephine Versace on September 4, 2020, at 14:49

Thank you for your comment.
You may be pleased to learn that “Mx” was added as an entry in The Oxford English Dictionary in 2015 and in the Merriam-Webster Unabridged in 2016. In addition, the gender-neutral title is gaining ground in the United Kingdom, where it can be used as a title on official documents like driver’s licenses. Although it’s less popular in Canada, the honorific has been used in articles in The Globe and Mail and on cbc.ca. We’ll have to see how the use of the title evolves.
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