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Title: Dictionary publishers exclude gender terms
Post by: LostInTime on February 09, 2007, 09:22:24 AM
Post by: LostInTime on February 09, 2007, 09:22:24 AM
Link (http://www.evolutionpublishing.com.au/sxnews/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1578&Itemid=41)
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 'transvestite' 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.
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 'transvestite' 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.
Title: Re: Dictionary publishers exclude gender terms
Post by: Hazumu on February 10, 2007, 12:42:45 AM
Post by: Hazumu on 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
Karen
Title: Re: Dictionary publishers exclude gender terms
Post by: cindianna_jones on February 10, 2007, 01:13:20 AM
Post by: cindianna_jones on February 10, 2007, 01:13:20 AM
It could be a simple case of omission.....
Right...
Cindi
Right...
Cindi