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UCSD pays for trans-species project.
Refrieddingo, I think you've proved my point - journalism isn't about 'making assumptions'. It's about asking questions and conveying well-researched information to a wider audience. You should never be in a situation where your readers are more educated than you are. Ernie's choice of pronouns is a deviation from contemporary journalistic norms. He went out of his way to buck the mainstream when it comes to refering to transgender people. The Associated Press Stylebook even recommends that when referring to transgender people, you should respect the wishes of the subject when deciding which pronouns to use.— April 3, 2009 8:46 a.m.
UCSD pays for trans-species project.
And as another aside, the computers we're all using wouldn't even be possible without the contributions of another transgender woman, computer science pioneer Lynn Conway, who transitioned from male to female in 1968 while working at IBM.— April 2, 2009 4:56 p.m.
UCSD pays for trans-species project.
As an intresting aside to all this, and not mentioned in this article... the company that runs Second Life, San Francisco based Linden Labs, has quite a few transgender people working for them, including programmers. Some of them are friends of mine. They are a very trans friendly employer, and they are well aware of how their virtual world is being used to explore the boundaries of identity.— April 2, 2009 4:52 p.m.
UCSD pays for trans-species project.
Ernie Grimm said: "Re: the pronouns, it would have been dishonest to myself and my beliefs to use feminine pronouns when I, in fact, believe Micha to have been created as a man by God." Gag me. You have no business being a journalist - you're hiding behind God to justify your bigotry. You're exactly like racists past who used to hide behind God to justify their bigotry. Here's an example from the case of Loving v. Virginia, 1959: 'The trial judge in the case, Leon Bazile, echoing Johann Friedrich Blumenbach's 18th-century interpretation of race, proclaimed that "Almighty God created the races white, black, yellow, malay and red, and he placed them on separate continents. And but for the interference with his arrangement there would be no cause for such marriages. The fact that he separated the races shows that he did not intend for the races to mix"'.— April 2, 2009 4:40 p.m.