Talk:Jan Morris

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What's the protocol for personal pronouns for people who have changed expressed gender? I generally call someone "she" if she wants to be seen as female, and "he" if he wants to be seen as male, whatever they wish. But in this article we are dealing with the history of someone who wanted to be seen as male at one time, and then later wanted to be seen as female. Should we use "he" for the early history and "she" for the later, in the same article? Maybe polite, but a bit confusing! The Guardian article I cited has the same problem, and does exactly this. Emrys2 07:01, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

I think it's not so much protocol as basic good manners to do as you do! As for the article: I'm not a transsexual, but it seems to me at any rate that it's got the pronouns just right. garik 00:38, 28 July 2006 (UTC)