Embracing Diversity: Supporting Trans and Gender-Diverse Children
In a rapidly evolving world that increasingly recognizes and embraces the diversity of human experiences, it is crucial for parents to deeply understand and actively support transgender, nonbinary, and gender-diverse children.
Seeking guidance from #gender#therapists and #LGBTQ+ organizations can provide valuable #support and #resources throughout this journey, including assistance in navigating challenges and accessing appropriate care.
Among assault victims age 70+, women are much more likely to be assaulted by spouse/partner/relative, while men are more likely to be assaulted by strangers or unknown assailants. Overall, victims coming into ERs are 58% male. #nowyouknow#IPV#familyviolence#gender#sociology@familyresearch
Die rechtspopulistische SVP hetzt gegen alles, was mit #Gender zu tun hat.
Kämpft sie wohl bald auch gegen #Gendermedizin? Also gegen wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse, dass Frauen und Männer bei gleicher Diagnose manchmal unterschiedliche Dosierungen oder Behandlungen benötigen?
#Trans and #intersex people have been around since humans (or maybe even our pre-human ancestors) could think about and articulate the concepts of #gender and #sex. With gender norms came people who defied them, or simply didn’t fit the definitions. There has never been a culture or a period without #nonbinary people, without non-cis people, without intersex people. We have as many names as there are stars in the sky.
I play #Hearthstone, mainly Battlegrounds and Mercenaries. #Communist, but haven't figured out what kind. Und, ich lerne #Deutsch, ich muss mehr üben 😅
I forget that men are also victims of the gender wars. Dr. Ted Johnson wrote a thoughtful and beautiful essay about this issue.
“The politics of masculinity have become a central focus of the right wing, which accuses progressives of waging a war on men. On the left, “toxic masculinity” is blamed for the exaggerated displays of such antisocial masculine attributes as hardness and violence.”
Multiple sources report that Dell Children's hospital in #Austin has shut down their adolescent care division under pressure from Project Veritas and indicted felon Attorney General Ken Paxton over their #gender-affirming care clinic: https://www.tiktok.com/@revjo.uu/video/7232341205235862827
A new study finds evidence that occupational #gender#bias has consequences for men who may consider entering #healthcare, early #education, or domestic fields (#HEED). The findings indicate that #men avoid HEED #careers because they expect #discrimination and worry about acceptance and judgment of others
After giving #TinyLife a spin, playing #Valheim where you can only select "Man" or "Woman"; and there being a "bearded" slider which... simply exists but is disabled for the latter option, the game really does feel clunky/boring/backwards in terms of #gender things.
For context, Tiny Life elegantly completely solves this problem by actually never asking for gender or "sex". You can either bear children or impregnate, or neither. You also can choose whether your voice is "warm" or "soft" plus a slider for the pitch. Everything is independent of those options, beard, hair, etc.
Since Valheim to my knowledge doesn't even have sex, it could just go with sliders for body shape and voice. Done, no need for encoding any gender.
Digital Editor Kit @oconnell travels to NYC this week for the #GLAADawards, where they are nominated for Outstanding Online #Journalism for their critique of the #NYTimes harmful coverage of #transgender healthcare:
In my latest Women Advancing Together article, “The Social-Media Pissing Contest”, I discuss my recent experience on Mastodon in which a conversation among three women was taken over by four men and their seething egos. I relate that experience to published research on the topic of male dominance in small group interactions. #Gender#Women#SocialMedia
Ursula K. Le Guin discussing her regrets about not using more gender-neutral language in her book 'The Left Hand of Darkness', the significance of pronouns, and the grammatical accuracy of the singular 'they':
"English has a truly ungendered pronoun only in the plural. He, she, and it are gendered, they is not. [...] Historically, and colloquially, they has been regularly used as an ungendered or bisexual singular."
Since my post on Ursula K. Le Guin's approach to gender-neutral pronouns and her being firmly in support of the singular 'they' is still getting some traction, it's also worth sharing this long but definitely interesting interview to The Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) from 2017 where she revisits the subject, among several other things.
I found something interesting: https://wals.info/feature/31A#2/46.1/148.9
An (incomplete) map / list of #languages and their #grammatical#gender system. It is interesting to see that many languages don't have the grammar to address different (social) genders via #pronouns. Others use gender to distinct between other things (e.g., human vs. animal vs. plant vs. thing). IMHO, looking at all these different concepts of gender is very important when trying to make languages more inclusive.
To coincide with her new book More than a Glitch, we’re looking forward to hosting Meredith Broussard for a talk on “Confronting Race, Gender and Ability Bias in Tech” on 10th May 2023.