4. Gendered Words, Second Language, and T Changes

[queerchocolate]

I am from a spanish speaking country and my family still lives there. Family doesn't know about trans stuff. Spanish has a lot of gendered words. There are no gender neutral terms either (like child, sibling). Chatting with them is a language struggle. I sometimes just speak in a male gender form (I am a trans guy), other times I come with very convoluted language structures to talk in female form, but not exactly gendering me with that. Probably my family believes that I have forgotten spanish!

[YaninBananin]

@queerchocolate

Hi, thanks for your comment!...I was hoping someone

would reply who spoke Spanish. I took 3 years in high school

and vaguely remembered some of the gender restrictions. I totally

play the "it's just me forgetting the language" card in Russian as well : )

[ZeBeFruity]

ok, im in love with all your notebooks.

[YaninBananin]

@ZeBeFruity

Thanks, haha I'm a little bit of a mega-dorkus : )

[TheSLOfox]

Very interesting! As an student of literature/language, I am so fascinated by the ways in which gender is structured into languages, and how languages differ. I have to say I'm glad I'm not in a Russian-speaking country, if even the verbs are gendered!  wow.

[YaninBananin]

@TheSLOfox

Agreed, totally makes me appreciate the ability I have, in English, to structure sentences in a way that almost entirely avoids pronouns (and gendered verbs haha). Russian last names are gendered as well, but that's a whole other issue : )