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Regardless of whether "transgender" was ever used as a verb properly, "transgendered" has been used by people who clumsily imply just that meaning, and I have had the word used in that sense towards me pejoratively very recently. It matters.

@ruakh Again, you miss the point where using the word as a verb has historical implications and therefore providing complete context of why it is inappropriate is relevant even if the other reasons are fully-sufficient.

The nature/nurture debate is irrelevant both to the use of language and the every day lives of transgender people. We are not subjects in a fishbowl; we are humans with lives, and whatever causes us to be trans is substantially less important than our ability to have equitable access to the rights of civil society. This comment is out of bounds for this StackExchange and my humanity as a person and I am uninterested in it.

@anaximander "Gay" and "lesbian" have never (widely) been considered pejorative within-community, but they have been considered pejorative by straight people using them to insult and oppress gay people. It is noteworthy that the queer community in America has a long history of reclaiming terminology; today, the word "queer" is used pridefully whereas less than a generation ago it was a slur (and many do still consider it such, and it should be used carefully).

To put it another way, the generalized rules of grammar are less relevant to the specific case of this word both in a linguistic/grammatical sense and in the sense of learning the language. Adding -ed is grammatically incorrect precisely because it is offensive, much as using du in German would be a grammatically incorrect and offensive way to address a superior.

@ruakh Your point about grammar totally erases the historicity of transgender rights and the transgender struggle. It is very much relevant, both in the context of how grammar and language are used in practice, and in the historical context of the ways transgender people have been oppressed, to treat the term as described and to consider it a word worthy of exceptions to the rule. The rules of language are evolving and reflect social issues; this is a social issue.

This said, there are still trans people who use transgendered and if that is a term a person wishes be used for themselves, the best choice is to honor it. The dynamics are complicated within the community, and the impact of getting it wrong is less one of offense and more one of appearing to be out of touch and it gives the impression of not listening to the community you're speaking or writing about.

It's been twenty years since I've been using the letter, and still everytime I see a $\rho$ I call it a "p" in my head

But the problems take me forever

I'm actually doing OK with the material now

I wish I could forget that.

Measure theory

And have no idea how to recover that result.

I swear I'm going to get murdered on this exam because I'm going to forget that 2 times 2 equals 4.

Got it

Thanks

Because I'm an idiot.

but I see it now

At this point I'm just rearranging the deck chairs

I keep using $|x-y| \ge \left| |x|-|y|\right|$

I can't reconcile the subtraction

@anon I keep getting into a circular logic

I think this class has actually made me stupider.

I wish i could. I keep going in circles. halp.

Isn't there an inequality that says something like $|x-y| \le 2 \max |x|, |y|$?

Failing that, I would appreciate help with some basic mathematics.

I need help not being crazy

Geology is for those who want that sweet, sweet oil money.

@KajHansen It literally takes like 5 seconds to figure out. Worth your time. And worth it if only for the prevention of RSI.

@KajHansen Macros buddy, macros

Chem is like the english language. "Hey, here are some rules. Oh wait, every one of those rules has 23432 exceptions."

Fix physics, eh? alizter solves GUT

Someone has a sign that says, "Math not masturbation." Evidently this person has never heard of category theory.

It's about sex-ed in public schools

So there's a protest happening in Ontario today.

The NFL needs to release the reports for all their investigations

Sports is boring right now, skully

Evening folks

so I shall go to sleep.

Alright, my wife has officially sent the dog in to get me to go to sleep

All I have to say is "Pythagorean Triple Incident" would be a great name for a band.

I play in a local beer league now; gotta try to stay active while I grow old.

I've played since I was about 6

Like, I need to learn how to do that.

Here, at 3 mins: youtube.com/watch?v=F1jpCBPiWS4

He catches his own damn slapshot.

Like

He fakes a slapshot... but he actually takes it and catches it.

Oshie does something that blows my mind and I need to learn how to do it.

I was watching the Go Pro video that they released around the all-star break, let me try to find it