As requested by my linguistically inquisitive Granny and inspired by this week's Newsweek cover story on Gender I'm going to introduce some gender neutral pronouns. You might be wondering why in the world anyone should care about gnps so first here's some reasons:

a) It's convenient. In the case where you want to talk about someone who's gender you don't know in the singular tense, "I was waiting for him or her to call." Clearly there's frequently other ways around this, "I was waiting for the secretary to call." Oftentimes there's no avoiding the "she or he" monstrosity and then a gender neutral pronoun can step in.

b) It creates a binary that can be oppressive for people who identify as nongendered.

The forms that I like, mostly because I've studied Kate Bornstein and these are what ze uses:

ze instead of he/she.
hir instead of her/his/him.

I don't know if it's acceptable to use the contraction "ze's" for "ze is." Although, being neologisms and not actually standard English, I'm not sure anyone knows what's acceptable.

Of course, first person English is gender neutral: I/my/we/our, as is third person plural: they/their/them.