The independent article demonstrates how pronouns shouldn't be used as a 'closed set' of words as individuals such as transgender people, who are trying to change their identity, may not want to be called certain derogatory terms that apply to specific genders. Therefore, this article implements more freedom of gender as the HSBC bank, one of the biggest UK banks, now offer trans customers a choice of 10 new gender neutral titles. These are titles such as 'ind', which stands for individual and meaning free of gender and 'Mre', an abbreviation for mystery. The bank also published a video of a transgender individual themselves, named Stuart Barette, who is their project manager to not only share their own personal experience of changing gender and the feelings and challenges they faced in the process, but to also explain the significance of offering the opportunity for customers to choose from a range of gender neutral titles. This is important because they think that discovering your identity is a big step in contribution to your journey as an individual, and having others to support this makes the process a whole lot easier. The independent article also includes other facts and statistics such as other banks, including Royal Bank of Scotland and Barclays, allowing people to have gender neutral titles which reinforces a sense of freedom, community and progress.
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