I hope uninformed is correct, and ignorant would not be more correct. I am sorry if ignorant is more correct. I am asking because I do not want to be ignorant, and I want to be respectful of the LFBTQ community. I listen to NPR a lot. And have lately heard them use the term queer to refer to homosexuals, male and female, bisexual, and transgender. The first time I recently heard this on the radio, I wondered about it, because that was a derogatory term I heard in the 1960s and 1970s and perhaps beyond for people who are homosexual. But now, apparently queer is becoming more common. It still feels uncomfortable when I hear it on the radio. What gives?
The other thing I have noticed in the NPR reporting is that when they report on persons who are transgender, the term "they" is used instead of he or she. Again, please enlighten me. Is this the terminology preferred by people being reported upon, or is it a machination used by the legal or political powers that be at NPR to keep them out of legal trouble? I just want to know.
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