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As a side-note, she's also a male->female transgender. I'm not personally making any judgments here, but some people might consider her still a male, and thus n
by Lambdanaut 12y ago
As a side-note, she's also a male->female transgender. I'm not personally making any judgments here, but some people might consider her still a male, and thus not the highest paid female exec.
It's more of an interesting factoid than anything, though.
- ForHackernews 12y agoFWIW, since it's just part of her identity, not her defining characteristic, many people consider it impolite to use "transgender" as a noun. The preferred usage might be something like "transgender person" or just a "trans person" for short. Consider "a 10 year old autistic" as an analogously impolite usage.
- jwise0 12y agoAnyone who considers her male is wrong. Period. If she is the highest paid female exec, then she is the highest paid female exec.
- patrickg_zill 12y agoIf Rothblatt sent a DNA sample off to a DNA testing lab, would they detect the sample as being from a male or a female? (not that I really care all that much)
- daeken 12y agoMale, because that's her genetic sex. Note that gender and sex are two different, not necessarily correlated things. Sex is the sum of your physical characteristics; gender is what you feel and/or identify as. She identifies as a woman, and has in fact had sexual reassignment surgery (giving her most female physical characteristics). She's a woman, and female.
- patrickg_zill 12y agoOne is something related to science ; the other is related to political or social beliefs.
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