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The Language of Human Rights<br />

Law Reform<br />

• Demonstrate <strong>and</strong> Dem<strong>and</strong> Clarity<br />

• Avoiding Vague / Labelling / Medicalised /<br />

Diagnostic / Pathologising Words; eg<br />

Transgender, Transsexual, Intersex, GID,<br />

Gender Dysphoria etc<br />

• Use descriptions of what people do rather<br />

than characterisations – to neutralise <strong>and</strong><br />

normalise language <strong>and</strong> empower clarity<br />

in the communicating <strong>and</strong> defining rights

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