Transgender individuals experience limited access to healthcare. This results not least from experiences of discrimination to which they are exposed in the health system. These contribute to transgender individuals having poorer health than cis individua
Once you know what someone’s pronouns are, use them actively. Refer to them correctly when you’re talking to and about them. It’s particularly important to do this when they’re not present. Some people use multiple pronouns, like “she/they” or “any pronouns”. Use all of them i...
they do not capture fine-grained, temporal patterns of social experience, including interpersonal stress and connectedness. Given that ~84% of youth use mobile devices to connect with people digitally [151] and, on average, spend up to nine hours per day using their phones...
they do not capture fine-grained, temporal patterns of social experience, including interpersonal stress and connectedness. Given that ~84% of youth use mobile devices to connect with people digitally [151] and, on average, spend up to nine hours per day using their phones...
I am using ‘they’ and ‘them’ as singular, generic, gender-neutral pronouns here and in other parts of the paper. Section 1, Sexual Offences Act (2003). Please note, the legal definition of rape is slightly different, but very similar, and is also gendered, so only a man can commi...
I had no problems with anyone there. Sweet people, and I miss them. But at some point, my longstanding questions about why we “do” church the way we “do” church had no satisfying answers. I had been asking myself for years why we were there; why weren’t we out doing things ...
Being able to openly share pronouns also raises awareness and acceptance of different gender identities and cultivates a sense of belonging. “I spoke to HR, to my manager, individual employees, and eventually had a team meeting where I explained how I felt, who I was on the inside and how...
We don’t do that kind of thing any more: too old. Once you hit your thirties, you have to start worrying about your knees. We compared the scenes to the George Floyd protests last summer: back then, the streets were full of people who’d never been on a march before; they didn’...
Business: The business document type is similar to the academic but less strict. It still checks for passive voice and the use of who and whom. However, it will ignore more informal expressions and pronouns and some unclear antecedents. ...
Social identities can cause us to extend altruism and care to people within our boundaries, but also to withhold our concern from people we think are on the outside. But these boundaries are not fixed. They are malleable. They can narrow, but they can also expand. ...