Gender in Illuminatia
Gender has been depreciated in Illuminatia. Usage of and reference to this archaic concept in communication and social interaction has been abandoned in favor of the employ of a detailed and descriptive lexicon referencing a complex constellation of qualities and characteristics that may be used to describe the orientation of a person's personality, internal emotions, behaviors, and social presentation.
Gender pronouns have likewise been depreciated in the common Glossa Communi language in favor of a larger catalogue of indirect nouns which can be used to refer to persons according to a more granular selection of their qualities. Various sets of these pronouns can be used in reference to details such as: one's role in a social interaction; one's relative position in a professional hierarchy; one's introvertedness or extrovertedness; one's status relative to the age of majority; one's role as a consumer, seller, or proprietor in transactional roles; one's position in agreement or disagreement with the general topic at hand; in addition to a plethora of other conditions.
These non-gender situational and context-sensitive pronouns can be used in verbal and written communication for situations in which referring to an individual according to their name might be considered impolite, too direct, or not creative enough. Illuminatians find using these non-gender-specific nouns to convey much more information about the people to whom they reference than the binary gender spectrum employed during Earth's ancient era. Illuminatians generally agree that pronouns that would potentially reference a person's presumed sex or gender convey no useful information about an individual and have no use when nouns that are more information-dense and are more accurate can be used.
Meanwhile, reference to a person's biological sex is never made in a public setting. Reference to biological sex not utilized in polite social interaction and is often kept confidential to all but one's few closest acquaintances, or on a need-to-know basis between one and one's medical practitioner. Reference to biological sex is mostly irrelevant in a familial setting with exceptions, for instance, for parental knowledge of the sex of a young child as it may pertain to caretaking and personal hygienic assistance. Certain governmental departments such as the Bureau of Reproduction and Copulation (BRC) will keep record of a person's sex for purposes of population management, but these records are not made public on an individual level. And in no situation in Illuminatian society is biological sex ever utilized as a stand-in for reference to gender.
Gender continues to be studied academically from a historical perspective so that scholars can maintain an understanding of literature and historical works of art within the context of the time period. Illuminatians consider these references to gender to be a strangely foreign concept and incredibly crude compared to the granular system used in Illuminatia.
In present day Illuminatia, it is considered rude, inconsiderate, and ill-informed to assign a person a gender.