> This text has since been updated, but is still transphobic.
The archived link [1] they provide to backup this claim already contains lines like the following:
> Honoring people's preferences about gender identity includes not referring to them in ways that conflict with that identity.
So I have to say the fact that the authors of this letter just put this out there while linking sources that are in contradiction to what they claim is...pretty concerning.
“This text has since been updated, but is still transphobic.16 The main page on his web site includes the statement that “‘They’ is plural — for singular antecedents, use singular gender-neutral pronouns.”17”
For what it’s worth, I don’t understand why this is transphobic, but I would be curious to find out.
The HN title is not explained at all by the linked page, which on the contrary specifies that “For instance, call them by the names they use, and honor their preferences about their gender identity” which is absolutely not transphobic.
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[ 1.4 ms ] story [ 27.8 ms ] threadThe archived link [1] they provide to backup this claim already contains lines like the following:
> Honoring people's preferences about gender identity includes not referring to them in ways that conflict with that identity.
So I have to say the fact that the authors of this letter just put this out there while linking sources that are in contradiction to what they claim is...pretty concerning.
[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20210325014959/https://www.gnu.o...
For what it’s worth, I don’t understand why this is transphobic, but I would be curious to find out.
(1) Try to be nice. (2) Don't be an a*hole.