Gender-neutral family relationship descriptors

Quoting @batmansxrobin in https://answers.ea.com/t5/Game-Feedback-Ideas/Making-quot-spouse-quot-and-quot-partner-quot-labels-toggleable/m-p/13893839#M4423:

"The UI dropdown element for custom pronouns already exists. Changes and adaptations to it can be made. It would have made more sense for "custom relationship titles" to be added below "custom pronouns", and for them to be filled in by default for each she/he/they pronoun template like they already do... that way *all* gendered (like mother, father, sister, brother, aunt, uncle, etc) or neutral terms could eventually be included, and easily customizable at any time for each sim. Which is also so useful for personalization outside of gender too. What if you want some sims to be referred to by different names for mother like "mum", "mamma", "mater", "mama llama", etc? And considering they had to go update all the references anyway to be "romantic partners" or "engaged", it wouldn't add extra development time for it be a referenced string variable rather than static text. Want your sim to be both a "boyfriend" and a "wife"? Done. Use any terms you want. I do like that Lovestruck offers an option for custom relationship labels, but it's behind a paywall... so maybe that's the reason why it wasn't added as a simple addition to the dropdown, because that would've been free for everyone..."

(Just thought it made sense to include this suggestion here as well, since it's a potential solution)

I can't understand how erasing people's gender can be inclusive. New nouns should be added, like pronouns were, so everyone can be represented, instead of entirely erasing people's genders.

@kaichen04this is why I put @batmansxrobin 's suggestion from the other thread here. I can imagine it is probably easier to make the default terms gender-neutral and then gendered/alternative flavour can be customised/added back just like pronouns. This way nothing is erased.

In life, people of any gender identity are addressed as parents/siblings/children in various contexts with no offence made, but if you don't fit within the gender binary, being referred to as a 'son/daughter'/'brother/sister' etc could be discomforting.

I think an implementation similar to how pronouns work would be easier than, say, adding a non-binary gender alongside male and female in CAS.

People have fought a lifetime to be able to marry and call their significant other husband/wife. You can't erase all gendered word from the game and call it inclusive. I find extremely offesive to go backwards and have gay couples be denied being husbands and wives again. How even trans people would feel? To fight to be respectred as men and women, but to never be able to be represented as a wife/mother or a husband/ father? To have their gender they fought for erarssed? And how does that affect other languages? English is very gender-neutral. People in other languages are having to deal with very strange words. Fiancé / Fianceé became "Engagement Pair", which sounds terrible in portuguese. Husband ?wife had to become "cônjuge", a legal term you generally only see in technical language in divorce papers. I don't think erasure is the way when you can just add new words. The nouns can be paired with the pronouns (he/his: father. She/her: mother. They/them: parent. That would be inclusive.

But gender-neutral terms for these relationships are still lacking in the game (and I assume not just in English), so suggestions for these should still be added!

Options are always good and I support this, but if some devs are reading this and thinking of doing the same as they did with the relationship lables: add gender neutral variety, but leave the old gendered ones there too. Please please don't take 'mother' away from me when you already took 'wife'. Please.

@DonPaxis
"[...] as currently it appears that textual references to Sims' gender identity is primarily controlled by the male/female toggle and then pronouns are overridden by whatever is selected in CAS.

As suggested by @kaichen04, @batmansxrobin, these tags could link to pronoun usage instead (and then default per the male/female toggle if no pronouns are selected)."

This would take some work but should be doable if that's how it works.

I'm currently working on a gender animation mod that locks your animation sets to your Clothing Preference instead of the Male/Female toggle. It works and it works well.

You have to either be intentionally misunderstanding or not thinking very hard about it. 
seriously- 

gender neutral terms are terms that could go for ANY GENDER. Saying parent instead of mother/father on a technical level would just be that- and simmers AS THEY PLAY can call each other whatever they want (like trans/nonbinary/gender non conforming people have been doing forever.) 

Nothing pisses me off more, then when people try to claim that inclusive neutral language is exclusive… Because it simply isn’t. If you are mad at being called a person instead of a woman or a man, there is a problem with you because that is you being offended by being called a person It is just a gender neutral term meaning all of us can fall into that category. How was this not just common sense basic freaking knowledge ?