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> Perhaps the candidate has little experience because previous employers he interviewed at did not wish to hire a Black Muslim Lesbian T____ due to fears of getting sued.

First of all, I'm confused about how someone can be a lesbian and take 'he' pronouns. Second, 'black', 'muslim', and 'lesbian' are names for identities, while 't____' is a slur. Its presence in your post is incredibly jarring and I nearly stopped reading there.

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Woah I blew past that line in the original document. This guy is a jerk. Using language like that is unprofessional, and basically asking for trouble down the line.

Thank goodness due to his hiring practice he'll screen out all the candidates who will be remotely different from him, so he can keep on living in his bigoted bubble!

FWIW, the correct term is transgendered, but most transgendered people I know are not offended by "tranny." It's all about the context. "That fucking tranny" will be offensive while "I love my tranny, that bitch is awesome!" will be looked upon as a nice thing to say.

Regardless, the author is trying to use shock value with the photo at the top and by including conversation that is entirely irrelevant.

I can change the language, though I don't know what the right term is. Transsexual?

I've only met one person of that category in my life, and she referred to herself by the same term used in the post. What's the official term to use? I don't want this distracting from the actual point being made.

If you really care, the association of LGBT journalists has a stylebook that you can use.

http://www.nlgja.org/resources/stylebook

If it were me, I would just remove the "trans" reference altogether, as speaking about trans issues is an advanced technique.

Nice to start off the morning with a laugh. I'm not interested in the boring conversation about whether trannie is an acceptable term to our society, but the idea you had no idea what it is short for is a joke. As a graduate in Sociology, how can you understand "how technology shapes culture" and obviously never have bothered to know the name for large subsets of our culture?

I wrote most of this, but the name on the page is my cofounder. I just forgot to create a tagline for myself before posting it. My background is math/physics/trading.

That's not an excuse. You seem to have an ignorance about a whole group of people. I'm fairly sure even the Pope could come up with the word "transsexual".

I don't mean to imply that ignorance implies anything else about you, but it's ignorance. You can alleviate it by: 1. Meeting some people outside of your apparently somewhat homogeneous bubble 2. Reading books

I'm not making excuses, I'm pointing blame at the right person. (The tagline describes my cofounder or a fictional person, probabilistically. Haven't updated it yet. )

He's making a point that candidates who are of a particular class are often screened out of employment based on that class. He's not saying he does that, he's using hyperbole to illustrate a point. The very usage of the incorrect pronoun likely emphasizes the hyperbole even more.

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