Yezmin Villarreal

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‘They’ Is Now Part of the Associated Press Stylebook

The Associated Press Stylebook is now allowing the use of “they” as a singular pronoun “in limited cases.” The announcement came Thursday during the American Copy Editors Society conference. The new rule will appear in the 2017 edition of the AP Stylebook, which will be available May 31. Poynter interviewed Tiffany Stevens, a reporter at The Roanake Times who identifies as non-binary, about the change. “The fact that it’s being accepted by The Associated Press, that’s super exciting,” said Stevens. “Non-binary people as an identity aren’t recognized in general in America.” The entry in the stylebook now reads: “They, them, their In most […]

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Gay ‘Cures’ Don’t Work, Says World Psychiactric Association

The World Psychiatric Association is calling “ex-gay” or “conversation” therapy “unscientific, unethical, ineffective, and harmful” in a statement released today to BuzzFeed News. The association will release a report tomorrow that will declare its opposition “to any attempts to turn LGBT people heterosexual,” in reference to the effectiveness of so-called conversion therapy. Along with declaring the inefficacy of such therapy, the WPA also called on governments around the world to decrimalize homosexuality: “WPA supports the need to de-criminalise same-sex sexual orientation and behaviour and transgender gender identity, and to recognise LGBT rights to include human, civil, and political rights.” “There is no […]