Thanks for sending that, Uri! As
you know (but maybe some on this list don't), I'm transgender and
have been blogging about the same issues for seven years. Here I
apply a Roschian analysis to the category of "woman":
http://transblog.grieve-smith.com/?p=41
Here I talk about implications for bathroom controversies:
http://transblog.grieve-smith.com/?p=446
Here are all of my posts about categorization and transgender
issues, in reverse chronological order:
http://transblog.grieve-smith.com/?cat=9
I presented some of my research at Lavender Languages in
February, but I would have edited together some of my blog posts
and sent them to a journal, if I'd known that was all it would
take to have a "study" that gets published and reported on all the
science blogs!
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1L1PBX-9IAeZp3N0t6XoapmdF_bx4GZarGwjiGp9055Y/edit?usp=sharing
I agree that sociolinguists should take into account that
binary models of gender vastly oversimplify the variation that's
out there. I would go further and say that these kinds of
"category fights" count as semantic variation and are thus well
within the scope of sociolinguistics.
If anyone has suggestions about journals that would be
interested in more elaborated versions of any of these blog posts,
please let me know!
On 10/30/2013 10:09 AM, Uri Horesh wrote: