What are some appropriate gender-neutral terms to use in today's society?

Answer 1

Gender-neutral terms concerning sexuality

• homosexual
• sexual orientation
• transsexual
• asexual
• heterosexual
• bisexual
• pansexual

Some other gender-neutral terms concerning careers:

actor

businessperson

bar staff

bartender

carpenter

carer

chair, or chairman, or chairperson

computer operator

congressional representative

councilor (councillor)

counselor (counsellor)

courier

dentist

doctor

(business) executive

firefighter

flight attendant

(any sort of) hand, as deck hand, stable hand, and so on.

journalist

laborer

leader

lecturer

machinist

mail carrier / mail worker / letter carrier / postal worker

manager

mechanic

member of Congress, Parliament, and so on

meteorologist

mountaineer, mountain climber

nurse

nurturer

officer

(any sort of) -ologist

(any sort of) operator

(any sort of) -ist, as stylist, typist, and so on.

parent

personnel

police officer

politician

professor

rancher

sales clerk

security officer

senator

server

shooter

singer

sommelier

songwriter

spokesperson, or spokesman

stable hand

staff

(any sort of) staff, as: counter staff, office staff and so on

teacher

team leader

waiter

welder

(any kind of) worker, as office worker, factory worker, and so on.

workforce

writer

Other terms:

community

Student

Humankind

Mankind

It

Them

They

We

Us

family

friend

kinship

lover

parent

partner

sibling

staffing

Answer 2

Appropriate gender-neutral terms to use in today's society are "they, them, and their." Although in standard written English these terms are plural, colloquially they are considered appropriate to refer to an individual person in a gender-neutral fashion.