#gendered language

[fixing-bad-posts]

sylveon for trans rights and miso soup also

Submitted by @legateamelia

#fixingbadposts #fixing-bad-posts #fbp submission #legateamelia #sylveon #trans rights #transgender #transgender rights #queer #gendered language

[itgetsbetterproject]

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How do we take a traditionally gendered language like Spanish and adapt it to be more gender inclusive?

Language is a powerful tool - this new EduGuide is amplifying non-binary voices, dismantling stigmas, and teaching us how to take a traditionally gendered language and adapt it to be more inclusive.

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Education like this helps create a space where every identity is seen and celebrated!

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El lenguaje es una herramienta poderosa - esta nueva EduGuide amplifica las voces no binaries, desmantela los estigmas y nos enseña cómo tomar un lenguaje tradicionalmente basado en género y adaptarlo para que sea más inclusivo.

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¡Una educación como esta ayuda a crear un espacio donde se ve y se celebra cada identidad!

#itgetsbetter #homosensual #nonbinary #enby #genderqueer #gender neutral #gendered language #pronouns #spanish language #no binario #no binarie #latine #lgbtqia

[magis-ghast]

There is one big issue with gender neutral language in English for nonbinary etc people like myself.

Titles/Honorifics

It's one that's had a lot of debate and many proposed solutions over the years (including Mx. which works for some people but I find clumsy), but I think I've solved it with the help of etymology and Wikipedia

Mr. and Mrs. are both from Master and mistress, and if you trace them back they go to Magister, and then to Magis

Which is related to both Mage, and Maestro, and means roughly the same things as Mister and Mistress

So I suggest (and really enjoy the idea of) perhaps adding Mgs. to Mr. and Mrs., pronounced "Magis"

Which could be used in a spousal way and as a title of respect

When I tried to do similar things for Sir and Ma'am, they come from different roots and so I can't quite as easily do this tracing back and abbreviating, but I am attempting it anyway. (I will update if I find anything worthwhile)

I get not many people are willing or able to change their language in such a forced way like this, and that language is supposed to evolve fluidly forward and not by haltingly filling in gaps left by the gender binary we already have built in to English, but I wonder if Mgs. would catch on...

(Also Mgs. [My last name] sounds reallllllly cool, try it out)

#Mr and Mrs #formal titles #language #nonbinary #Magis #Mgs #genderqueer #genderfluid #agender #transgender #mx #gendered language #hmm #etymology #gender neutral terms #gender neutral titles

[mraplejuic]

LMAO I NEED TO SHARE THIS WITH YOU GUYS

our new literature teacher started her intro with neutral language like "good morning everyone (masculine form), everyone (feminine form) and everyone (neutral form)" which is a pretty big deal in our language and now all the stupids are mad at her for some reason.

THEY WENT TO THE COUNSELORS OFFICE REPORT HER FOR THAT. i am fucking dying.

THEIR WORDS, NOT MINE: "BRO THIS IS A qualified teacher that went through years of studying shouldn't she know better?!!!!!1!1!1!!" "i told my dad about this and he said he's gonna transfer me out of school"

#laughing just so i dont cry btw #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #nonbinary #non binary #enby #nb #trans #transgender #gendered language

[susielesbianism]

*bows and disappears like the Swatchlings do when you spare them*

#undescribed #yes I am wasting time I could be spending killing Undyne the undying why do you ask #Susie #Berdly #kris dreemurr #queen deltarune #swatch #Spamton #lancer #rouxls kaard #noelle holiday #Jevil #spade king #suselle #I don’t ship king and queen together at all but. *bass boosted* divorce #deltarune #safeutdr #gendered language #deltarune textpost memes

[our-agender-experience]

I've been debating whether I'm agender for a while now, and I think yeah, somehow I am, but also not quite. It's more like... I don't care? I am biologically female. That's fine, that's all I've ever known, but it's not part of my identity.

The best metaphor I could come up with is like it's an old sweater that I've owned for ages, and it's maybe not the prettiest or the comfiest but it's there and I've always worn it so it's fine. Sure, sometimes it looks a bit off. I could embrace it, make a whole look. But then people might take notice that I'm wearing a sweater and that would be weird, because I'm not wearing it for any particular reason other than 'it's there' and people might compliment it which would be super uncomfortable because it's just an old sweater? Haven't we all got one? Sure, maybe it would be nice to wear a jacket instead from time to time, jackets are cool, but I don't care enough about jackets either to put in the effort. So I'll keep wearing my sweater, because that's what I've always done and if someone calls me 'the person with the sweater' that's fine too, because even though it doesn't really resonate with me, on the surface it's true.

It's weird, because I don't feel like a woman, but I'm so used to being seen as a woman and most of the time it's not uncomfortable enough that I feel like I have to change that perception of me. Sometimes I wonder if I would be happier as not-a-woman, but that concept is so nebulous that I can't really imagine it. I don't know. Sorry for the rambling, but it's hard to put into words and I am kinda curious if there are other people out there feeling similarly? Maybe someone even invented a word for it already?

I don't personally feel like that, but hopefully you find someone who can relate. Good luck!

#agender #our agender experience #agender pride #have a nice day #gender presentation #gendered language #pronouns

[spinnysocks]

it's so weird and irritating how certain descriptors are close to fitting, but they're not quite there

they are so close! to how i want to be called or described, but they're just... not... how i want to be called or described

so,

shoutout to those who don't feel described by mr, ms or even mx

shoutout to those who don't feel described by woman, man, enby, any of the sort

shoutout to those who don't feel described by boyfriend, girlfriend, partner, etc

shoutout to those who don't feel described by cute, pretty, beautiful, handsome, the list goes on

and to those who feel iffy or uncomfortable by those terms, especially those who feel they have no other choice but to go by them

i see you, i understand. <3 i'm always welcome to and hoping to hear some new or different terms :)

#trans #nonbinary #genderqueer #gendered language #gender term #descriptors #compliments #honorifics #i don't even know how to tag this #think this is just my nb otherkin experience tbh #trans experience #nonbinary experience #genderqueer experience #queer #lgbtq #gender neutral #gender neutral terms

[transandrophobiatruther]

Talking to terfs is insane become you can be like,

So you believe a woman should have the right to terminate a pregnancy, and that abortion to be accessible to all women and girls, even if she later regrets it?

And they'll be like, yes of course, a woman should have full autonomy when it comes to her body. There's a risk factor of regret in anything, but that doesn't mean a woman should lose her freedom over it.

And you believe women should be able to get a hysterectomy at the age of 18 and older, even if she doesn't have children? What if she wants babies later?

They'll say, if men can get a vasectomy at 18, women should be able to get a hysterectomy. Men aren't required to have babies first, and women aren't human incubators. Women should be allowed to decide for themselves what is right for their bodies and their health.

And then you say, okay, so, logically then, trans men should be able to freely use testosterone, even if it theoretically impacts fertility long term?

But suddenly terfs are throwing a fit about how trans men shouldn't take such a huge risk they might regret later, and that they should be worried about their fertility and what if they want babies!? They're really just poor scared girls who really shouldn't be allowed this much control over their bodies when they may make a mistake they'll regret! Fertility comes first!

#gendered language #misgendering #transandrophobia #transphobia #pregnancy #abortion #ask to tag

[spyld]

Bonjour! Je voulais juste vous demander (et aussi demander vos abonnés) comment dire iel (où they) en allemand et en russe. Je suis en train d’apprendre les deux et comme j’utilise iel/they en français/anglais, je voulais vraiment savoir comment faire la même en allemand et en russe. Désolé si vous n’êtes pas qui je devais demander, je sais que c’est parfois très compliqué et parfois il y a beaucoup de réponses. Merci tellement!

Что такой “they” (местоимение) по русский? Я изучаю русский язык и я хочу знать. Это «они» или что-то другое? Спасибо!!

Ich möchte gern wissen wie sagt man „they“ auf Deutsch. Vielen Dank!

(ask from spyld 2023)

Nice question!! So I'm throwing it open to other languages too!

How to be gender neutral in x language??

#nonbinary language #nonbinary #spyld posts #genderqueer #non binary #spyld #enby #gendered language #language #german #russian #french #love for iel en français btw :)

[bloggingboutburgers]

How hard is it for people to grasp the concept of a language that's not gendered? (French into English as an example)

I can only speak for my own experience really, but... Personally I find it way easier, and I wouldn't be surprised if other people felt that way too! It's a lot more inclusive, removes some of the uncertainty and doesn't leave you wondering for hours about what random "gender" an inanimate object is supposed to be because someone randomly decided so (I swear to god we do that more often than one would think even in our own language)

#anon #language #gendered language #latin language

[transenbyconfessions]

i live in a country with heavily gendered language. tables are female, cups are male, yk the stuff.

my gender identity is complicated, but i know im definitely nonbinary. i use they/it pronouns in english, and i dont feel feminine nor masculine, and i feel pretty happy just.... being me.

but because of my native language, i have to choose between masculine and feminine pronouns.

my friends know im nonbinary, but (most of) them see me as a man. (im afab.) and i mean, i guess im happy they dont see me as a girl! im glad they acknowledge im trans in some way! but it hurt when someone misgendered me and one of them said "hes a trans man" because im not! im nonbinary! and i do tell that i do try to explain that "well actually im not a man nor a woman im nb" but they just go "yea yea what he said" and it just. yeah. i get why they do that, kinda. i told them to use male pronouns after all because its the one i least mind in my language! so its fair they see me as a boy. im happy they are accepting im trans, but i just hope they accept im nonbinary as well.

they mean well and i love them, but it counts as misgendering when they say im a trans man.

one of my friends outed me to the whole class. my classmates were very accepting, and i love when they call me by my chosen name, but i just want them to know that im not a man. im not a woman. im me. im nonbinary.

maybe i should talk to my friends.

Submitted May 22, 2023

#transgender #trans #enby #nb #nonbinary #non-binary #non binary #gendered language #pronouns #misgendering #outing #transphobia

[fixing-bad-posts]

It's super sexist to define "women" by having a vagina

#fixingbadposts #fixing-bad-posts #gendered language #self identity #feminism #queer #bioessentialism

[femininefreyanyctophile]

I am so happy rn my favorite leftist forum is on tv!!!

So a little bit of context:

On the 19th of march, the current ministerpresident of Bavaria (CSU, moderate centre right) announced a new law that will outlaw the usage of gendered words (adding an "*in/*innen" to the end of many jobs, as their traditional names are male) in state institutions (police, school etc.). In protest of this the reddit user, on the german(/Dutch) leftist subreddit r/gekte, u/Ein_Geist has started renaming the addresses and names of the CSU and its sister party, CDU.

Most of the changes were gendering the buildings, renaming stuff like "boys" meet to "boy/girl/diverse" meet or renaming parts of their name ro the opposite (christian democratic union to christion undemocratic union) etc. Quickly many other users (me included) followed lead, and in half a day, basically every CXU building was gendered or changed. The more (potentially extremist) right wing party AFD was also hit with "stray bullets".

This went on for a few days until April 2nd and on April 1st a user posted something to indymedia (https://de.indymedia.org/node/349113) explaining that it was not just an April fools prank (which seemed to be an assumption before) and at that point the media had caught caught wind, up until yesterday it was mentioned in the news! (In german)

In response to this the parties CXU have also answered that they will "Check legal steps"; although there wont be much they can do about it.

#cducsu #Feminism #womens rights #Smart witch rambles #gendered language #Gekte

[lamuya]

Third episode of my transition diary! It's also available in that pesky other language on my website.

(This might be why I usually write my comics in English first, then translate them into French rather than the other way around)

#transition diary #transgender #gendered language

[touch-starved-lurker]

any other enbies who are mostly comfy with gendered terms like bro or queen or w/e normally, but can't stand them and only want to be called a creature or pet or human animal or w/e when they get dysphoric?

cuz yeah same

#nonbinary #non binary #enby #genderqueer #trans #transgender #dysphoria #gender #gender stuff #trans stuff #gender expression #gender dysphoria #tw dysphoria #tw gender dysphoria #cw dysphoria #cw gender dysphoria #gendered language #gendered terms #creature

[sunbloomdew]

honestly, using a gendered language can feel so comforting, because while i like english and feel more comfortable speaking/writing in it, when i use polish you can immediately tell that i am using a masculine form, and it just leaves no space for denial. it feels good.

but also gendered languages are hell <- uses they/them: polish gender neutral language forms are not widely spread at all and it sounds gramatically awkward as hell to the general public (i literally didn't know it existed until october 2023)

#sunbloom talks #language #gendered language #im ramblingggg #but i looked at my messages and i see “byłem” “zrobiłem” and im like :3 #warm #trans things #gender stuff #trans #<3 #polish #polbr #polish language #english language #the plus: gender neutral :D you can't tell what gender i am by the forms of verbs!! #the minus: gender neutral :/ you can't tell what gender i am by the forms of verbs #feeling silly cute tonight ehe