Mx for intersexed people?

[Laurence Horn]

At 4:59 PM -0700 9/16/07, Benjamin Barrett wrote:
>I thought Mx. was for use when you don't know if the person is male or
>female. Wikipedia doesn't provide that. It says:
>
>Mx (an ambiguous gender title) See intersex, androgyne or genderqueer
>(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mx)
>
>Have I been using this incorrectly?

Well, x could be the unknown (as on your reading) or Mx could evoke
'mixed', 'mix-and-match', or whatever.

LH

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