A good example, perhaps, of the disconnect that often exists between the "certainty" that we may have as sociolinguists regarding a particular concept and the manner it is construed in the outside world:

STUDY: Gender Is Defined Inconsistently In Transgender Equality Debates
http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2013/10/28/2848171/defining-gender-transgender-equality/

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Uri Horesh, Lecturer in Arabic
Program in Middle East and North African Studies
Northwestern University

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