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Reemphasizing The Appropriate Ways For Mainstream Media To Reference Trans Peopl

Started by Shana A, October 04, 2010, 06:57:01 AM

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October 04, 2010, 06:57:01 AM
Reemphasizing The Appropriate Ways For Mainstream Media To Reference Trans People
by: Autumn Sandeen
Mon Oct 04, 2010 at 04:00:00 AM EDT

http://www.pamshouseblend.com/diary/17522/reemphasizing-the-appropriate-ways-for-mainstream-media-to-reference-trans-people

As we're reading about how Victoria Carmen White was treated in death by officers of the law and mainstream media, it's appropriate to remind our blenders what the media stylebooks state about reporting on transgender people, transsexuals, and those who identify as both transgender and transsexual.

From the Associated Press Styleguide (2006):

    Use the pronoun preferred by the individuals who have acquired the physical characteristics of the opposite sex or present themselves in a way that does not correspond with their sex at birth.
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde
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