Busy Philipps Is Doing Her Best last week, Philipps said that Birdie is her “out kid” and shared their pronouns. The LGBTQ+ ally and star of shows including Dawson’s Creek, ER, and Cougar Town, said that she’d been referring to Birdie with the wrong pronouns, which led to an “intense conversation.”“I said, ‘You know, Bird, I’ve been doing a bad job with the pronouns,’ because Birdie said that they would like their pronouns to be they/them and I haven’t been doing it, I said, because I have this public persona and I want Birdie to be in control of their own narrative and not have to answer to anybody outside of our friends and family if they don’t want to,” Philipps said on the podcast.