Talk:Reed Erickson

Pronouns, "female graduate"
I've altered the page so that male gender pronouns are consistently used throughout. This is in line with the pages of other transsexual people, for example Lynn Conway, Sophie Wilson, Danielle Bunten Berry, etc. Some parts are also problematic, such as stating he was the first female graduate of LSU's school of mechanical engineering - I've changed that to "first (biologically) female graduate", as there's plenty of good arguments to suggest that a trans person is never truly their sex-at-birth, and in general it's a somewhat touchy issue. Xmoogle (talk) 06:41, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

Feels like plagiarism to me
A lot of the info on this page was attributed to an article by Ruth M. Pettis in the LGBTQ encyclopedia http://www.glbtq.com/social-sciences/erickson_r.html. Pretty much everything there was actually taken directly from my own publications:

http://web.uvic.ca/~erick123/

[http://web.uvic.ca/~ahdevor/ABetterWorld.pdf Matte, N., & Devor, A.H. (2007) "Building a Better World for Transpeople: Reed Erickson and the Erickson Educational Foundation." International Journal of Transgenderism, 10(1), 47-68.]

[http://web.uvic.ca/~ahdevor/UneasyCollaboration.pdf Devor, A. H, & Matte, N. (2004) "ONE Inc. and Reed Erickson: The Uneasy Collaboration of Gay and Trans Activism, 1964-2003." GLQ: A Journal of Gay and Lesbian Studies, 10(2), 179-209.]

Devor, H. (2003) "Erickson Educational Foundation." In The Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History in America. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.

[http://web.uvic.ca/~ahdevor/ReedErickson.pdf Devor, H. (2002) "Reed Erickson (1912-1992): How One Transsexed Man Supported ONE." In Vern Bullough (Ed.), Before Stonewall: Activists for Gay and Lesbian Rights in Historical Context (p. 383-392), New York: Haworth]. --Ahdevor (talk) 05:07, 24 September 2013 (UTC)ahdevor

"Female graduate" revisited
It's been changed to "afab" in the post, which I will change to "AFAB" because that's how initialisms work, but perhaps "natally female" instead? How is this on other trans pages? Tototavros (talk) 04:32, 1 February 2020 (UTC)
 * I think it's good as it is now. "AFAB"/"assigned female at birth" is the current standard terminology (See: https://www.glaad.org/reference). I changed it to the full version per MOS:1STOCC: When an abbreviation will be used in an article, first introduce it using the full expression. Would definitely not use "natally female". The only other option that might be worth considering would be something like at the time he was considered "the first female graduate.... WanderingWanda (talk) 03:52, 2 February 2020 (UTC)

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