I live in the Castro neighborhood of San Francisco, where transgender
people (at all stages of the process) are pretty plentiful. Protocol
here is to use the pronoun that matches the assumed gender, as
recognition of the who the person is becoming or wishes to be.
Danese
On Jul 18, 2006, at 8:09 AM, ashok wrote:
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 )
