--- title: London Tube Nixes Ladies and Gentlemen for Gender Inclusion description: The London Tube is nixing using "ladies and gentlemen" in favor of a more gender-inclusive greeting for their trains. canonical: https://time.com/4857232/london-tube-gender-inclusive-greeting/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-07-13T19:42:35.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:45:23.682Z og:title: The London Tube Is Now Using A Gender-Inclusive Greeting og:description: No longer just "ladies and gentlemen" og:url: https://time.com/4857232/london-tube-gender-inclusive-greeting/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt706d2cf22a7f3b3e/6988d58d656a3f35b8bd0ce7/london-tube-gender-inclusive-greeting.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: London: Things to Do And Places To visit og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The London Tube Is Now Using A Gender-Inclusive Greeting twitter:description: No longer just "ladies and gentlemen" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt706d2cf22a7f3b3e/6988d58d656a3f35b8bd0ce7/london-tube-gender-inclusive-greeting.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # No More 'Ladies and Gentlemen.' 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(Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images) LONDON - JUNE 06: A london Underground sign sits under Big Ben on 4 June, 2008 in London, England. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images) Dan Kitwood—Getty Images  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Jul 13, 2017 7:42 PM UTC The [London Underground](http://time.com/4514384/jonathan-dunne-created-tube-chat-badges-london-underground-users/) is changing its greeting to its passengers, nixing “ladies and gentlemen” in favor of a more [gender-inclusive and nonbinary](http://time.com/4703058/time-cover-story-beyond-he-or-she/) message for commuters. Starting Thursday, Tube staff began to use terms like “everyone” instead of “ladies and gentlemen;” the pre-recorded announcement will also be changed to reflect this new gender-inclusive decision. According to [_The Evening Standard_](http://www.standard.co.uk/news/transport/transport-for-london-scraps-ladies-and-gentlemen-from-tannoy-announcements-in-genderneutral-move-a3586336.html), Mark Evers, director of customer strategy at Transport for London, are because they want “everyone to feel welcome on our transport network.” “We have reviewed the language that we use in announcements and elsewhere and will make sure that it is fully inclusive, reflecting the great diversity of London,” he said. The gender-inclusive change came about following an incident when Aimee Challenor, Green Party equalities spokesperson and a transgender commuter, was told that she “didn’t sound like a Miss” during a phone call to the London Tube’s helpline in September of 2016\. Following Challenor’s call, LGBTQ activist pushed for gender training for the Underground’s staff and [appealed to London mayor Sadiq Khan to change the language](https://www.standard.co.uk/news/transport/mayor-sadiq-khan-looks-to-scrap-ladies-and-gentlemen-from-transport-announcements-a3416426.html) of the train’s greetings and announcements. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4857232/london-tube-gender-inclusive-greeting/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4857232/london-tube-gender-inclusive-greeting/"},"headline":"No More 'Ladies and Gentlemen.' 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