[Ads-l] Jenner interview - gender confirmation surgery

[Ben Zimmer]

On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 11:59 PM, Benjamin Barrett wrote:
>
> In a story by Gabriel Arana (http://huff.to/1KfZx2s), the Huffington
> Post comments that they amended the article on Diane Sawyer's interview
> of Bruce Jenner yesterday to use "gender confirmation surgery" instead
> of "gender reassignment surgery."
>
> It seems likely that this interview will be a watershed moment in terms
> of awareness of trans issues.

For more on trans (and cis) terms, see the Winter 2014 installment of
"Among the New Words" in American Speech, devoted to newish
descriptors of gender and sexual identity: http://bit.ly/ATNW89-4

--bgz

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