On 7/18/06, ashok <
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Well, since I have read about her and she has clearly said that she wants to be a woman, I refer to her that way....If *we* feel this to be a difficulty, just imagine how difficult *their* lives must be...
i am always confused by nomenclature in such situations.
Do you call someone by the gender that they were born with ("He (sylvie)
is a hairdresser") or by
the gender that they aspire to ("She (sylvie) is a hairdresser").
Deepa Mohan wrote on 07/18/2006 05:49:04 PM:
> herself to be (which is a woman, not the man that she was born as )
Even when writing of human beings, I wish there was a common-gender pronoun...I sometimes use "hes" or "hir", or sometimes type "s/he".
Deepa.
