Aperson's name generally has no logical connection with the actual person, just as the word "cow" has no direct connection to any actual cow. these examples illustrate the principle that the connection between a word and what it represents is

there are no options provided but you can choose among the following gender-neutral pronouns: zir, hir, eir, vis, tem, eir.

in the normal course of maintaining a pronoun-antecedent agreement, we could have used the words his or her but since we are also required to use gender-neutral language, we need to replace it with its equivalent gender-neutral pronoun.