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More Terminology
Resources
Human Rights Campaign website
Bongiovanni, Archie, and Tristan Jimerson.
A Quick & Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns,
(Limerence Press, 2018).
Valido, Ray. " Words Matter, Identity Matters:
Translating the Vocabulary of Diversity, "
The ATA Chronicle (May/June 2022).
The ABC's of LGBT+: Gender Identity Book for Teens, Teen
& Young Adult LGBT Issues (Mango Publishing, 2016).
Pronouns.org website
Why Do I Need
to Know This?
People in the LGBTQIA+
community are part of our
everyday lives, whether
we recognize them or not.
It may be a trans person
housed in the wrong facility
in prison, a non-binary
person requesting adequate
hormone replacement
treatment (HRT) or surgical
intervention, or maybe any
member of the LGBTQIA+
community trying to escape
an abusive relationship.
All the challenges other
people encounter-medical,
legal, and professional
challenges-will be
encountered by those in
the LGBTQIA+ community
as well, and they should
be dealt with in the
same respectful manner.
Academia, government, and
businesses recognize the
need for diversity, equity,
and inclusion (DEI). As
professionals, we need to
do so as well and should
familiarize ourselves with
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the correct terminology to
reflect that.
How Do I Learn More?
If all this seems
overwhelming, fear not. As
with any other specialized
terminology, we can
embark on a personal
research project to inform
ourselves on the most
up-to-date, appropriate
terminology to be prepared
when we encounter it in
the workplace. Just as we
wouldn't do an assignment
on climate change without
researching how to say solar
panels or wind farms in
our language pairs, neither
should we neglect to know
the correct LGBTQIA+
terminology for when, not
if, we encounter it in our
professional lives.
To keep up with the
latest terminology, many
resources are available,
including the ones listed in
the sidebar above (also see
the small glossary on page
14). An excellent resource is
the Human Rights Campaign
website, which provides
glossaries as well as people's
stories and the current legal
framework affecting the
LGBTQIA+ community.
This article skims the
surface of some misunderstood
topics regarding the LGBTQIA+
community today. But there is
so much more to delve into in
terms of identities and
orientations, acknowledging
them, accepting them, and
understanding laws affecting
LGBTQIA+ people here and
abroad. I try to address these
topics at length and cover
more terminology in the
presentations I continue to
give at our national T&I
professional conferences,
including ATA and the
National Association of
Judiciary Interpreters and
Translators (NAJIT). If you
attend, you'll come away
with a long list of resources,
a glossary, and much more. I
hope to see you at one of these
events sometime soon!
NOTES
1. Obergefell v. Hodges,
2015 (National
Constitution Center).
2. Census Bureau Survey
Explores Sexual
Orientation and Gender
Identity (U.S. Census
Bureau, 2021).
Vinka
Valdivia is a
California state
and federally
certified Spanish
interpreter with almost 30
years of experience working
in the courts and for private
clients, including the U.S.
Department of State. Her
presentation on LGBT
terminology and the law
at a national conference
for professional translators
and interpreters in 2017
has since spawned many
offshoots on topics such as
inclusive language and why
neopronouns are becoming
more common in translations.
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