Article: The Shifting Language of the Transgender Community

[Carolyn Marie]

http://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2014/03/09/the-quickly-shifting-language-transgender-community/J0yimos7SoZmVy8mm1Q9LL/story.html

Carolyn Marie

[tracy_j]

People love to play with words!

It is one of the most complex of problems when learning any subject and gender plus associated issues is no exception.

[Guest KimberlyF]

It amazes me how little research really takes place these days.

[Charlize]

I particularly liked this line in the conclusion. "Once you learn the language someone prefers, embrace it, as more and more publications, workplaces, and schools are beginning to do" As i listen to and read the debates amongst ourselves this idea of openness to the desires of the individual seem most important. I also know that my view and vocabulary of and about myself are in a flux and may perhaps always be like that.

Hugs,

Charlize

[Guest KimberlyF]

"'In English you cant refer to an individual in the third person without either gendering them or referring to them with a word that generally connotes lack of humanity-youre either a he or a she or an it,'said Susan Stryker, director of the Institute for LGBT Studies at the University of Arizona."

Oh, the irony.