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		daniper on Sept 4, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: N-gram Analysis of the New York Times Weddings Sec... They have editorial discretion. I'd be curious to know what the "acceptance rate", so to speak is... I know for a fact that a couple I know was rejected specifically because one of them was undergoing gender reassignment and the NYT didn't know which personal (gender) pronoun to use for him.

mason240 on Sept 4, 2013 | [–]

The NYT said they rejected it for that reason, or that is what you friend assumed to be the case?

Haul4ss on Sept 4, 2013 | | [–]

AP StyleBook says to use the gender the individual identifies as. Thus why all the news media now reports on Chelsea Manning.

mtdewcmu on Sept 4, 2013 | [–]

Maybe a different section would have printed it. I'm kind of interested.

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