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To: Tanniker Smith

“Obviously, since surgery hasn’t occurred yet, the author meant to say “HE”, not “she”. I guess we’re editorializing in the news again.”

No actually the style book from the press company that shall not be named says you should refer to the transgender person as they gender they present in.


9 posted on 07/30/2008 5:23:18 PM PDT by LAforme2008
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To: LAforme2008
No actually the style book from the press company that shall not be named says you should refer to the transgender person as they gender they present in.

Style book be damned. I know what a pronoun is and what each one means.

21 posted on 07/30/2008 5:37:52 PM PDT by Tanniker Smith (Teachers open the door. It's up to you to enter.)
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To: LAforme2008
No actually the style book from the press company that shall not be named says you should refer to the transgender person as they gender they present in.

Same idiotic style book that doesn't see the sense in an Oxford comma. ;-)

62 posted on 08/05/2008 1:04:05 AM PDT by Gondring (I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
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