QT/Trans: What do the language changes actually accomplish?

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[–]loveSloaneDebate King[S] 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Not to mention people who didn’t have access to the best education or aren’t well informed on anatomy/biology.

So now someone who may not know that male people specifically (and I guess according to u/genderbender some female people… idk how that works?) have prostates (but knows he’s a male) won’t know that he’s a “prostate haver” and won’t know that information is relevant to him.

So gender inclusive language is actually ableist and exclusionary to quite a few people. It can make medical information less accessible to more people than sexed language would offend.

…So naturally any person of either sex who isn’t aware that they need regular sex specific medical exams because they aren’t referred to with any acknowledgment of sex who ends up getting sick was a victim of Literal Violence at the hands of QT and if they die, that’s MURDER, right? That’s how that works?

[–]MarkTwainiac 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Not to mention people who didn’t have access to the best education or aren’t well informed on anatomy/biology.

To the groups you mentioned I'd add people who might have access to education and information but still have retention/memory problems or intellectual impairments. There are lots of people in the world with sub-average intelligence or limited cognitive abilities, or difficulty with retrieving info they once learned - but one basic thing they all tend to know for certain is whether they are a boy/man or girl/woman.

The terminology that GenderBender favors is also exclusionary to trans-identified people who develop dementia.

[–]loveSloaneDebate King[S] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Yes I had them in mind but didn’t know the best way to word that! Thank you!

Also, I read a few days ago that trans people with dementia tend to forget they transitioned and feel out of place in their bodies (their transitioned bodies) and “identify” as their birth sex again. I’m honestly super curious about that and was just wondering if you knew more about it?

[–]MarkTwainiac 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I don't know anything more about it. I just know it happens. I imagine it might have something to do with the way certain essential information and self-knowledge that gets acquired early in life and is of fundamental importance gets recorded and stored in the brain, which means it still can be retrieved even after - or especially after? - dementia sets in. It might be similar to how people who've had massive strokes and lost almost all their language skills, vocabulary, understanding of grammar etc still know and will say curse words - and the way people in fear or on death's door automatically call for "mama" (or the equivalent word in their native tongue).