User:MalignantMouse/Elin McCready

Elin McCready is a linguist and professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Aoyama Gakuin University. She studies semantics, pragmatics, and philosophy of language, focusing in particular on phenomena like evidentials, honorifics, and slurs. She is also co-director of Aoyama Gakuin University's Singularity Research Institute.

Gender Recognition in Japan
After transitioning in the U.S., McCready filed to update her permanent residence card in Japan, where she lives with her wife and three children. The Japanese government refused to recognize her transition, as doing so would require them to effectively recognize same-sex marriage (which Japan currently does not) or to unilaterally annul the couple's marriage. A documentary, It's Just Our Family, has been produced about the couple's struggles with this treatment.