Am 2017-11-16 um 14:22 schrieb N. Andrew Walsh <n.andrew.wa...@gmail.com>:
> Since this is already well off-topic, I'd like to ask a general question of > the German speakers here: the Constitutional Court recently ruled that > forcing people born in Germany to identify only as either male or female on > official documentation is discriminatory (for a number of reasons, including: > some people cannot be biologically categorized as entirely one or the other, > some people are mis-assigned, some people don't identify that way, etc.). The > court provided two possible remedies: either add a third category (presumably > "unspecified"), or strike sex from official documentation entirely. > > Since German *does* use gendered pronouns, what do you imagine is likely to > happen here, as people start entering into adult life with no specified male > or female gender? As noted above, referring to biological organisms, much > less people, with the neuter pronoun would likely be considered unacceptable. > So what do you imagine is likely to happen here? Is the Duden going to start > establishing what is effectively a fourth gender category? Finally, a good decision, as far as I can tell. While trans* people often use singular "they" in English, that doesn’t work in German, since "sie" is they as well as she and You (polite form). "es" is unacceptable, as you noted. I wanted to research anyway how German trans* people want to be called, a quick search found: - xier, dey (http://nonbinarytransgermany.tumblr.com/language) - sif, sies, xier, nin, sei (https://weltenschmiede.wordpress.com/2014/08/24/gastartikel-er-sie-xier-nin-genderneutrale-pronomen/) Greetlings, Hraban --- fiëé visuëlle Henning Hraban Ramm http://www.fiee.net _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
