{"id":10187,"date":"2023-10-18T10:54:59","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T08:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maennergewaltschutz.de\/about-us\/wie-wir-gendern\/"},"modified":"2024-04-11T11:17:37","modified_gmt":"2024-04-11T09:17:37","slug":"how-we-use-gender","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.maennergewaltschutz.de\/en\/about-us\/how-we-use-gender\/","title":{"rendered":"How we use gender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In our texts, we do not use the asterisk (*) <\/strong>on gender-assigning terms such as men or boys because trans* men are men. They do not need an asterisk to be included. The asterisk rather marks them as &ldquo;additional&rdquo; and &ldquo;different&rdquo;, i.e. excludes them. It is also sometimes used in a trans-hostile way.<\/p>\n<p>We consider being a man to be diverse and intersectional <em>per se<\/em>. For us, men are all people who see themselves as men, regardless of whether they are trans*, inter*, cis or another perspective.<\/p>\n<p>Gender is a social construct, just like nation, class or <em>race<\/em>. Given the multitude of social constructions, it seems impractical to mark all of them with (*) or only a selection.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In our texts, we use an asterisk (*) <\/strong>when<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>we are dealing with self-designations from communities, e.g. trans*, inter*.<\/li>\n<li>we want to represent all genders linguistically in plural forms, e.g. participants.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We see our choice of this spelling as a process. This can be seen in our materials from previous years, in which we have chosen other forms. Our vision is an inclusive society in which language is allowed to co-evolve. This vision should shape our attitude and work. Achieving it requires further social change processes in addition to language.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<pre>Version January 25th, 2024<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In our texts, we do not use the asterisk (*) on gender-assigning terms such as men or boys because trans* men are men. They do not need an asterisk to be included. The asterisk rather marks them as &ldquo;additional&rdquo; and &ldquo;different&rdquo;, i.e. excludes them. It is also sometimes used in a trans-hostile way. We consider [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":6614,"menu_order":24,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10187","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maennergewaltschutz.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maennergewaltschutz.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maennergewaltschutz.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maennergewaltschutz.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maennergewaltschutz.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.maennergewaltschutz.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10188,"href":"https:\/\/www.maennergewaltschutz.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10187\/revisions\/10188"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maennergewaltschutz.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maennergewaltschutz.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}