on the use of public bathrooms as a trans person: an illustration

[belenen]

icon: "Ma'at (a photo of one side of a brass balance scale, with a feather inside the bowl. The background is sky blue. On the bottom of the image, below the photo, is the word "Ma'at")"
CN/TW: anti-trans sentiment regarding use of public bathrooms.

I made an illustration:

Comments

[bobby1933]

Interesting and helpful.
I must learn a new language
(a new version of English)

[belenen]

thanks!

Indeed, transforming language within our own minds is so important.

[bobby1933]

Oh, yes. and the ones we say out loud perhaps more so.

[raidingparty]

Two other bits about language forming thought patterns:
- One people (can't remember who) use directions because their language doesn't have "right" or "left". So, like... hand me the Southwest plate.
Since they're always thinking in terms of direction, they almost never get lost.
- This is a distant memory, so I might be getting it wrong, need to double-check with a native Japanese speaker. But if I remember correctly "breaking" is a passive verb in Japanese, so "the Southwest plate was broken". In a study, people in active-break languages remembered who broke the plate longer than passive.

[bobby1933]

Many First peoples groups, including some American Indian groups are direction oriented as you described. We also learn from them that color perceptions are influenced by color names. This is also true of many other features of "reality" which we think are "out there." What we perceive is a function of interaction between the external and internal words. A rose by another name might not smell as sweet after all.

[raidingparty]

Oh neat, I hadn't read that about colors!