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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a translator I see that tendency to remove the word "woman" everywhere they can. Violence against women became gender-based violence, pregnant women became pregnant persons. I could cite many more. I specifically remember a text where there was a report of x number of girls being abused. They changed it in the original text to say "x number of minors". In my translation, I decided to keep the feminine form since I knew for a fact they were all girls. I was told I should stick to the gender neutral. That's the problem with erasing women. What does it mean when we say "x number of people are killed by their intimate partners every year" for example. Aren't we leaving out an essential part of the equation?[/quote]

How about you push for trans equality so that anyone who identifies as a woman or a girl is counted as such, then we won’t have to bother with the inclusive language? When a trans woman is murdered, that should count as a woman being murdered, yes?[/quote]

I translated several hundred pages on transgender violence. Transgendered women being murdered are accounted for as such because it's a very specific hate crime and we don't just say they are women or people. The same way when women are murdered by their partner, it's important to say they were women and not just people, because that's what motivated the crime.[/quote]

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