Gender-nonconforming people in library science

found: Work cat: Trans and gender diverse voices in libraries, 2023CIP galley (... we had two requirements for potential authors. First, they needed to be involved in library and information science (LIS) work or study, or have previously been so. Second, all authors needed to be trans and/or gender diverse. This seems like a good place to discuss our word choice, and whom it covers. "Cisgender" means a person whose gender matches the one legally assigned to them at birth; "trans" is often used as an umbrella term for everyone else. However, these definitions create a flawed binary, just as "male" and "female" do. Gender is far too complex and fluid for such concrete lines to accurately cover everyone's experience of it. There are many genders and individuals all over the world who do not fall under any of these binaries--male or female, trans or cis. We use "trans and gender diverse" in an attempt to cover the glorious range of gender diversity that exists without squashing anyone under terms that do not fit them.) (DLC)2023002394