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Title: Two transgender people stabbed in Brazil
Post by: Naomi71 on January 20, 2016, 05:50:26 AM
Post by: Naomi71 on January 20, 2016, 05:50:26 AM
https://www.susans.org/2016/01/20/7884/
Title: Re: Two transgender people stabbed in Brazil
Post by: kira21 ♡♡♡ on January 20, 2016, 07:29:20 AM
Post by: kira21 ♡♡♡ on January 20, 2016, 07:29:20 AM
Should it be 'two transgender people'? ' two transgenders' is a little dehumanising.
Title: Re: Two transgender people stabbed in Brazil
Post by: Naomi71 on January 20, 2016, 12:09:57 PM
Post by: Naomi71 on January 20, 2016, 12:09:57 PM
You're absolutely right, thanks for the feedback.
Title: Re: Two transgenders stabbed in Brazil
Post by: rachel89 on January 20, 2016, 12:26:28 PM
Post by: rachel89 on January 20, 2016, 12:26:28 PM
I think "transgenders" could be a translation of "travesti", a word that doesn't easily translate to English. Travesti are not men, they are not really "transvestites", and they don't describe themselves as women in the way most trans-feminine people in the U.S. do.
Title: Re: Two transgender people stabbed in Brazil
Post by: Naomi71 on January 20, 2016, 01:03:03 PM
Post by: Naomi71 on January 20, 2016, 01:03:03 PM
No, I saw the word "travesti" in local reports and decided to translate that with "transgender". English is not my native language, the wrong plural was an honest mistake :(
Pinknews actually mentioned (http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2016/01/20/three-trans-women-dead-and-another-stabbed-in-one-day-in-brazil/) the choice of words in Brazilian media.
"NB. Brazilian media refer to trans women as 'gay men' or 'transvestites'."
It's also reported that in the mean time, two more Brazilian transwomen were killed.
Pinknews actually mentioned (http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2016/01/20/three-trans-women-dead-and-another-stabbed-in-one-day-in-brazil/) the choice of words in Brazilian media.
"NB. Brazilian media refer to trans women as 'gay men' or 'transvestites'."
It's also reported that in the mean time, two more Brazilian transwomen were killed.
Title: Re: Two transgender people stabbed in Brazil
Post by: rachel89 on January 20, 2016, 01:28:34 PM
Post by: rachel89 on January 20, 2016, 01:28:34 PM
What is wrong with Brazil? Its not even the end of January and they almost 50 known murders of trans women.