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Dictionary publishers exclude gender terms

Started by LostInTime, February 09, 2007, 09:22:24 AM

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LostInTime

February 09, 2007, 09:22:24 AM
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Brisbane-based trans activist Linda Petrie has lodged a complaint with state and federal education ministers over the omission of the terms 'transsexual' and 'transgender' from certain school dictionaries.

While 'homosexual', 'lesbian', 'bisexual' and '->-bleeped-<-' were included in the latest editions of Collins Australian School Dictionary, Macquarie Australian School Dictionary and Oxford University Press's The Australian Basic School Dictionary, 'transsexual' and 'transgender' were excluded.

Petrie accused the publishers of "prejudiced and biased censorship that can easily lead to deliberately rendering invisible ... transgender and transsexual peoples" and that such omission of the terms could give justification to children who bully children with transsexual parents.
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Hazumu

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February 10, 2007, 12:42:45 AM
I'd very much like to see the blank stares on the officials' faces when they're confronted with their unthinking bigotry.

Karen
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cindianna_jones

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February 10, 2007, 01:13:20 AM
It could be a simple case of omission.....

Right...

Cindi
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