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b_b · 4593 days ago · link · · parent · post: This is how you *dont* write an article about trans issues
I get that; I just mean from an English perspective. It allows the reader to more fully understand what happened. Ashley no doubt identified as a female, but to the world she was a man. Because no one else can live inside her head, we have to assume she is a man until she starts to live openly as a woman. If the journalist writes her with male pronouns when speaking of times she lived as a man, it paints a clearer picture. I don't think the journalist was trying to be offensive, just objective.