Thursday, February 18, 2010
In the News
Posted by Martine Rothblatt at 3:53 PM
http://transgender2transhuman.blogspot.com/2010/02/in-news.html (http://transgender2transhuman.blogspot.com/2010/02/in-news.html)
These folks get a lot of credit for leadership in breaking out of linguistic enforcement of sexual dimorphism: http://www.michigandaily.com/content/profs-encourage-movement-toward-gender-neutral-language (http://www.michigandaily.com/content/profs-encourage-movement-toward-gender-neutral-language)
Also compelling is the use of "ey" for "he" or "she", "eir" for "his" or "her" and "em" for "him" or "her". This system can be easily remembered by simply dropping the "th" from the associated plural forms (they, their, them) of each sexually dimorphised pronoun.