Board Thread:Support Requests - Community Management/@comment-25620470-20150907220403/@comment-25620470-20150907223925

I'm not sure if there is much of a community to host such a discussion. It has seemed awfully dead while I've been there...

I was the original writer of the article. (It's fairly new.) Because of the name Amelia, I assumed Baggs was female and started using she/her pronouns, but as I researched I saw pages referring to Baggs with sie/hir. So I confirmed that this was what Baggs wanted, and I switched. Later, I found that an editor had changed it.

I know that the standard in news media is to use the pronouns a person wants to have used for them. http://www.glaad.org/reference/transgender

I probably shouldn't be, but I just feel really upset about this. A lot of people on the autism spectrum are transgender and I'm worried they'd feel hurt or unwelcome if they see Baggs described as female.