today, I wrote this:<\/p>\n
\nIn your story, “Seattle man charged in 2nd hate-crime
\ncase<\/a>,” you have identified the victim as “a man who
\nwas dressed as a woman.” In fact, the victim is transgender and
\nidentifies as a woman. According to both the AP Style Guide and the New
\nYork Times Style Guide, she should therefore by identified as a woman by
\nthe press and female pronouns should be used. To call her a man is
\nincorrect and offensive and is using the same logic that her attacker
\nlikely used.<\/p>\nI hope you can correct this article and avoid making this mistake again
\nin the future.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\nAnd I got a reply:<\/p>\n
\nYour message regarding the story about the bus shelter assault was
\nforwarded to me because I wrote the item. I used the language that was
\nin the charging papers without realizing it would be hurtful or
\noffensive. Thanks for raising my awareness. Had you not written in, I
\nmight have made the same mistake in the future.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\nOh, man, that totally helped!
\nSee, so writing to newspapers is not just spinning your wheels! So carry forth! We will make this a better world, one reporter at a time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"today, I wrote this: In your story, “Seattle man charged in 2nd hate-crime case,” you have identified the victim as “a man who was dressed as a woman.” In fact, the victim is transgender and identifies as a woman. According to both the AP Style Guide and the New York Times Style Guide, she should … Continue reading See writing letters DOES help<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[76,72,25],"class_list":["post-279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-celesteh","tag-letter","tag-transphobia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2484,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions\/2484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}