• fracture [he/him] @beehaw.org
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    5 months ago

    it’s highly personal, so ideally you ask the individual and include their consent in your article. that said, generally speaking, trans people will use their current pronouns, even referring to their pre-transition selves. this is also what’s generally considered polite if you don’t know them, so it’s pretty suspect that the article is not doing that

    still, something about malice and incompetence…

    • lad@programming.dev
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      5 months ago

      If an article is written by an author of her biography they may have talked about the use of pronouns.

      But wiki article, for instance, consistency uses “her” to refer to her