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Promising Practices for Collecting and Managing Names, Gender, Pronouns, Honorifics, and Sexual Identities
This resource page was developed by the Gender and Sexuality Campus Center staff team at Michigan State University and is intended to provide information for LGBTQIA2S+ inclusive practices to campus partners. These recommendations are based in current and emerging greater practices in the field of LGBTQIA2S+ inclusion.
Name
A name is a persons chosen form of address. A legal name is the mention listed on a persons legal documentation.
Terms to avoid:
- Preferred name implies that a persons name is optional.
- Nickname implies that a persons mention is a casual substitute for their legal name.
- Terms to use:
- Use Name when asking for the name a person goes by. If it isnt achievable to use Name, consider using Chosen Name.
- Use Legal Name only when you need to employ a persons legal name. In most cases, you should be able to use Name
Names for University Systems
- Allow students, faculty, and staff to choose their name for int
LGBTQ rights are at the forefront of Spain's election
MADRID, July 17 — The rights of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people verb taken center stage ahead of Spain’s July 23 national election.
Opinion polls predict Alberto Nunez Feijoo’s conservative People’s Party (PP) will beat the election after four years of coalition government by Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s Socialists and the leftist Unidas Podemos.
But Feijoo would likely need the support of the far-right Vox party to form a government. Vox has strongly opposed LGBTQ rights.
Here is what you need to know.
Why are LGBTQ+ advocates worried?
Local elections in May paved the way for PP-Vox coalitions in several Spanish municipalities.
Vox made headlines in May by hanging a sign from a Madrid building showing a hand dropping cards with symbols representing feminism, communism, the LGBTQ community and Catalan independence into a rubbish bin.
A recent Vox-led authority in the small eastern town of Naquera last month said it would no longer display the rainbow-colored flag on public buildings.
In Valdemorillo, a
Promising Practices for LGBTQIA2S+ Communications
Language is a tailors shop in which nothing quite fits - Rumi
This style guide was developed by the Gender and Sexuality Campus Center staff team at Michigan State University and is intended to provide information for LGBTQIA2S+ inclusive practices in written communication to campus partners. These recommendations are based in current and emerging finer practices in the field of LGBTQIA2S+ inclusion.
How to apply this guide
This guide is intended to be used for general guidance rather than concrete rules. Language is always changing. Our Promising Practices documents indicate the current greater practices for inclusion in communication at the time that they are published. As in all communications, context matters: the ways LGBTQIA2S+ individuals refer to themselves may differ from the recommendations in this guide and should be respected. As a rule, always mirror the language a person uses for themself.
Basics of talking about the LGBTQIA2S+ community
When talking about the entirety of the LGBTQIA2S+ c
Open Society Institute Budapest
International Policy Fellowship Program
Miriam Molnár,
Analysis of policies toward homosexuals in the Czech Republic,Hungary and SlovakiaPolicy Paper
Background
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