The Skin Bar beauty salon offers its clients over 40 different pronouns

An exclusive beauty salon frequented by celebrities offers its clients a list of over 40 different pronouns to choose from when booking an appointment. 

The Skin Bar, which has salons in some of Sydney’s most exclusive suburbs and counts famous faces like Abbie Chatfield and Jesinta Franklin among its fans, lists an astonishing 43 pronouns on its website. 

The drop-down menu includes the standard ‘he/him’, ‘she/her’ and ‘they/them’. 

But even the wokest of the woke will have their knowledge tested when trying to decipher which genders ‘kit’, ‘mer’, ‘ne’, ‘peh’, ‘shi’ and ‘thon’ apply to. 

On closer inspection, many of the pronouns provided have their origins in science fiction.

Clients also have the option to select up to four pronouns in another bizarre twist. 

The Skin Bar, which has clinics across Sydney, offers clients the choice of 43 different pronouns when making a booking 

‘Ae’ is apparently a gender neutral pronoun, which were first used in David Lindsay’s 1920 novel ‘A Voyage to Arcturus’ for an alien race, which appeared human but were formed by air.

‘Peh’, meanwhile, can be used by anyone regardless of gender identity or expression, with origins in a science fiction comic published on the internet. 

Most pronouns on the list, however, originated on Tumblr – a microblogging social media site founded in 2007 and popular with teenage girls. 

Terry Barnes, a journalist and political consultant who has written about the topic of pronouns in the past, branded it an ‘absurd fad’.

‘The thing about pronouns is that they are how others choose to describe us based on what they see,’ he told Daily Mail Australia.

‘Besides “he” and “she”, there’s no smorgasbord of pronouns for us to choose from and impose on others.

‘If I see you as a woman, you’re “she”, or “he” if you look like a man. I can respect your out-there pronoun choices out of politeness, but I’m not compelled to do so, and resent being forced to do so by the woke gender police.

‘This absurd pronoun fad might pander to the latest gender ideology, but it doesn’t trump biology and millions of years of human evolution.’

The Skin Bar, which has clinics across Sydney, is popular with the A-list, including model Simone Holtznagel 

The Skin Bar founder Samantha Appel admitted it was ‘lot of pronouns indeed’.

‘We are a modern skin clinic and in this modern world, we choose to be as inclusive as possible,’ she said. 

‘Our culture is never to be unkind to those who wish to identify by their pronoun of choice.

‘Our booking platform Timely, has these pronouns integrated, and we simply chose to include all.’

The Skin Bar has five branches across Sydney including locations at Bondi, Double Bay and Rozelle.

The company focusses on skin needling, a treatment that involves spiking the skin with very sharp needles to promote growth and regeneration.

Its converts include the likes of model Simone Holtznagel and radio presenter Abbie Chatfield.