No, they&#x27;re gender-neutral pronouns:<p>ve = she&#x2F;he<p>ver = him&#x2F;her<p>vis = hers&#x2F;his<p>I encountered them in Greg Egan&#x27;s <i>Diaspora</i>.<p>And yes, <i>True Names</i> :) An inspiration.<p>With a decent host machine, one can run numerous Whonix instances, each with one or more personas. They can be long-term or throwaway.<p>I do nothing at all private on smartphones. Signal and WhatsApp are cool and all, but radios are untrustable black boxes. Even if the data is secured at rest.<p>Edit: In Egan&#x27;s <i>Diaspora</i>, one of the protagonists is a software-generated entity, which literally has no gender. In my case, I&#x27;m referring to invented personas, which have whatever gender I fancy.