New words and phrases - Deadnaming. This is the act of "referring to a transgender or non-binary person by a name they used prior to transitioning, such as their birth name." Deadnaming may be unintentional, or a deliberate attempt to deny, mock or invalidate a person's gender identity. This a a delicate area - intentional and unintentional. The article references published authors who have transitioned and their former name appears in bibliographic records. Long will live bibliographic data.
Along with this is the expression "Lavender linguistics". This was advanced by William Leap in the 1990s and refers to the everyday language practices in LGBT communities. There is a LGBT lexicon known as Polari. It is associated with actors, circus and fairground showmen, professional wrestlers, merchant navy sailors, criminals, sex workers and now the gay subculture. Wikipedia has a Glossary of the terms HERE.
I seem to be travelling down roads that go off into all kinds detours of linguistic and social norms. TheNew York Times Advice Column on the weekend had the question over who gets to keep the clone dog when the couple is splitting up. They have the older dog who was cloned and the puppy clone. The advice was to keep the dogs together. There were other options provided for sharing the dogs. The question also revolved around who paid for the cloning and how that played into the decision. Are you ready? The cloning cost $50,000.
Then on the opposite page was the weddings showcase - where people who have recently gotten married cover their ornate, extravagant, ludicrously crazy stories of falling in love, getting engaged, and having weddings. It was the story of two transgender bixsexual men who got together that got my attention. So complicated to me to be both transgender and bixsexual.
Here's a love story in Grimsby Beach, with Olive Oil adorning a tool shed.
