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Originally Posted by glatt
It's amusing how transparently biased that article is. They report on a gender issue and make the editorial decision to refer to the child as "she" and when the judge refers to the child as "he" they throw a [SIC] in after it.
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But up to 2014 we all would have expected the [sic]
This reflects a cultural bias that reflects a majority* opinion. She is a 15-year-old girl who wants to be a boy and is in transition. Most people would insist that AB's pronouns reflect her current biological categorization, especially as a teenager. It doesn't really matter what she
wants, legally; and it doesn't automatically change if she is taking hormones on the way to transition.
That attitude may be, um, wrong; who knows, it is a crazy issue.
However, in Canada, it is damn near illegal to refer to a transitioning person with anything other than their chosen pronoun.
The article is clarifying the judge's incorrect language for its readers.
*I have no evidence it is majority, that is just a guess on my part