[AnnieBL]

In the real world definitely 'he'. My gender is at least part male and at least part not male, which means that part remained female. I use a female name here largely because it seems majority practice and because my mother always desperately wanted me to be Annabel; my parents used that name in correspondence for months before I was born, and my father on at least one occasion used Annabel P, so when plain Annabel wasn't available here I used that. In actual fact I don't really like the name that much and think I had a lucky escape (from the name, not from being the girl I would always have preferred to be) but it seemed a good fit here. The one thing I don't want to be, and definitely insist that I'm not, is 'it'.