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How we are spoken to, validated, doubted, or believed is important.

When I was badly injured at work, I had doctors actually scream at me that there was nothing wrong, and I couldn't possibly be experiencing intractable pain that wasn't reduced by any painkillers.

I changed doctors. But the invalidation stung, especially when Fentanyl, Temgesic, or vast quantities of CBD oil didn't lessen my pain.

I am a cis white middle aged woman, and despite being unable to stand, sit, or walk for more than twenty minutes at the time, I wasn't believed with several doctors, or specialists. I had fingers pointed in my face telling me I better not be making this up.

What's does this have to do with intergender dynamics?

When my testimony is doubted, I can't imagine what hoops the LGBTQIA community will have to jump through to be taken seriously.

The trans community are just as deserving of ethical health care as anyone else. They have been criticised and openly despised more in 2025 than ever before. Their rights have been reversed and they are continually invalidated. Today transgender people are villafied as dangerous, which is frankly obscene.

I'm not ready to give up the word mysogeny. The word rape was dumbed down to sexual assault, which includes things like inappropriate touching. But the one in three women who have been subjected to rape know it as rape, a devastating physical violation of women's autonomy and consent; an overwhelming theft of our personal power whose ramifications can last a lifetime. Women need this appropriate word in the lexicon. We understand it's meaning, and don't need another watered down version.

We do however need a raft of new credible words and terms tailed to the LGBTQIA community. Those new essential words in an international lexicon are needed, and needed now.

When I studied linguistics at University with the makers of Australia's premier dictionary,The Macquarie Dictionary, I was taught that language is always chaging. Words are fluid, new words are created every day. That's normal. Restricting language, or dumbing it down somehow, reduces everybodies free speech and autonomy.

I applaud your efforts to create new language to serve all the people in the LGBTQIA community. To validate, endorse, include, and speak without predudice and judgement to and for the people who choose to live the way they want, to live with who they want, and embody the gender and sexuality they want, freely and in peace.

The LGBTQIA community have never been a threat to anyone. They are non violent and have never done a thing to influence or endanger family values.

Goodluck at creating new words to fill a needed gap for a deserving people.

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