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Title: Two transgender people stabbed in Brazil
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
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
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
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 "->-bleeped-<-s", 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
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 '->-bleeped-<-s'."

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
What is wrong with Brazil? Its not even the end of January and they almost 50 known murders of trans women.