<div dir="ltr">Hi all,<div><br></div><div>Though it doesn't address how we might respond as a profession, I wrote a piece for my blog on trans language issues about what it suggests that "transgender" was among the words to be avoided/eliminated/banned, in case people are interested.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://medium.com/@lalzimman/what-does-it-mean-to-ban-transgender-3dbaef9a0a85">https://medium.com/@lalzimman/what-does-it-mean-to-ban-transgender-3dbaef9a0a85</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Lal</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><br>-- <br><br><div>Lal Zimman<br>Pronouns: he/him/his<br>Assistant Professor of Linguistics<br>South Hall 3518<br>University of California, Santa Barbara<br>Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3100<br><a href="http://www.lalzimman.com/" target="_blank">http://www.lalzimman.com/</a><br><br>Trans Talk, a blog on language and trans experience:<br><a href="http://www.medium.com/trans-talk" target="_blank">http://www.medium.com/trans-talk</a></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Dec 16, 2017 at 3:28 PM, Catharine Mason <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cmason.nc@gmail.com" target="_blank">cmason.nc@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Thanks, Judy! I hadn't thought of that possibility.<div><br></div><div>Good strategy is definitely not based on second-guessing. But if this is indeed a viable attack on freedom of expression, it will be important for linguists to respond collectively.</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="h5"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Dec 17, 2017 at 12:18 AM, Liz Coville <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ecoville@gmail.com" target="_blank">ecoville@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I agree with Judy that we need to find out more about how this came to be. Who said what to who and why. It seems like there's a lot of information that hasn't been reported yet, or at least I haven't seen it. Is it the words or the topics that arre being prohibited?<div><br></div><div>Liz </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="m_5165702208924180865h5"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Dec 16, 2017 at 5:01 PM, Judith Pine <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Judy.Pine@wwu.edu" target="_blank">Judy.Pine@wwu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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budget request, have decided that if they avoid these words they will be more likely to get funded, and if they have these words in their budget they’ll be less likely to get funded. So it’s a pre-emptive sort of thing, not a prohibition coming from the administration
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">So this may be an effort to get things funded by re-labelling them without changes in content. I think, though, that it is that this strategy will backfire,
as the labels re-shape the contents and everyone struggles in the dark to figure out what they are supposed to be doing. But how do you get bureaucrats to avoid “bureaucratic weasel-wording”?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">And if we point out the changed wording and it results in the administration and the legislature cutting the funding for the programs, where does that get us?
Not that weasel-wording is a good thing, but I’m not sure pointing it out solves the fundamental problem. Maybe, instead, publicize the positive results of programs that use these words, using the words in the titles? Ideally, successes in Republican-leaning
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<p class="MsoNormal">One way to fight this “ban on words” might be to publicize every document that the CDC publishes with changed words, pointing out the changes. This ruling hampers everything from getting information about the elderly to the fight against
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