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Showing Original Post only (View all)Just FYI: Transgendered is an inappropriate word. The proper word is Transgender. [View all]
Last edited Sat Apr 12, 2014, 07:40 PM - Edit history (1)
Examples:
Correct: He is straight.
Incorrect: He is a straighted.
Correct: She is lesbian.
Incorrect: She is lesbianed.
Correct: He is gay.
Incorrect: He is gayed.
Correct: She is transgender.
Incorrect: She is transgendered.
See how that works?
Use "Transgender," not "Transgendered." The word "transgender" is an adjective, not a noun, and never needs the extraneous "-ed" at the end. Chaz Bono can be described as either a man or a transgender man. He is not "a transgender," "a transgendered," or "a transgendered man."
http://www.glaad.org/publications/resources-journalists-and-media-covering-chaz-bono-and-transgender-issues
http://www.glaad.org/publications/resources-journalists-and-media-covering-chaz-bono-and-transgender-issues
http://transactivists.org/
http://transequality.org/
http://www.hrc.org/issues/transgender
http://www.apa.org/topics/lgbt/transgender.aspx
http://www.eeoc.gov/federal/otherprotections.cfm
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2010/06/142922.htm
http://www.lambdalegal.org/issues/transgender-rights
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender
http://www.wikihow.com/Respect-a-Transgender-Person
http://www.glaad.org/transgender
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/transgender/
http://www.isna.org/faq/transgender
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/politics/magazine/90519/transgender-civil-rights-gay-lesbian-lgbtq
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Just FYI: Transgendered is an inappropriate word. The proper word is Transgender. [View all]
Zorra
Apr 2014
OP
What is in the dictionary does not match with the preference of those described
Ms. Toad
Apr 2014
#11
Four of the first five dictionaries I've just tried disagree with you, I'm afraid.
Donald Ian Rankin
Apr 2014
#10
Comparing the word to straight or gay or lesbian is also incorrect. False equivalency.
phleshdef
Apr 2014
#20
And your post seems like conservative authoritarian dominant straight majority police bullshit that
Zorra
Apr 2014
#31
LOL, what did I say that was even remotely "conservative". You're just throwing word arounds now.
phleshdef
Apr 2014
#43
I thought they were four of the first five that came up when I googled "dictionary".
Donald Ian Rankin
Apr 2014
#32
Too funny! I was born LGBT, and am very active in many aspects of the LGBT community, on
Zorra
Apr 2014
#25
Are we talking about parts of speech? IOW, referring to an individual, that person is transgender
stevenleser
Apr 2014
#15
"I use this a lot so this is important for me to know. I want to say it right." Seconded.
AverageJoe90
Apr 2014
#42
Grammatically correct, certainly, but judging by responses to this thread not "OK". N.T
Donald Ian Rankin
Apr 2014
#48