Interesting. I know very little about Finnish other than that the Uralic languages are _very_different from the Indo-European or Sinitic ones.
So how does that play out in Finish when it comes to gender identification?
Let’s say someone wants to transition. Does anything change linguistically? Are there other social queues people would use to indicate that they acknowledge/support the transition? Or is it more of a, “You do you because we don’t have the grammar to have a conversation about it?”
Let’s say someone wants to transition. Does anything change linguistically?
Their name, and that’s it. edit like aside from some one directly addressing you with a title like miss or mister, we do have those. Or going “what’s up guys” but that’s sort of as neutral as it in English, as in technically refers to males but can be used to refer to a group of mixed genders. But aside from using a noun that means a female, then no. No word conjugate differently, we have no articles, nothing.
Are there other social queues people would use to indicate that they acknowledge/support the transition
Acknowledge? Sure. In a positive way? I doubt it.
Idk how it is in the capital area, which is arguably at least a tad more progressive, but people where I live (which is likely a bit more than an hour by train from Helsinki), people are still very casually racist, homophobic, transphobic, etc.
I genuinely socially isolated because I have principles and for example I was getting to know this news group people, not bad, were had fun meetings and activities. One time though, after an activity the group split into basically some of the men and most women and a few guys went home.
After talking for some time, I had heard, amongst other things, how homelessness is a choice, and how “transgenderism is brainwashing the youth”, “I can always spot them” (there really aren’t many trans people in my city dude was basically deluding himself into thinking every third rough looking girl he met had a penis) and then from a guy I thought more reasonable I heard “they could’ve been normal”.
That’s when I walked away.
Finland definitely isn’t the happiest country in the world that’s a huge myth. You can’t even transition without getting sterilised. (Although I haven’t checked on that for a year or two.) “Gender” and “sex” is conflated by many in English, but at least English has two different words. Try explaining the difference between “gender” and “sex” to some ill-read, inbred Finnish transphobe when both of those words translate as “sukupuoli”.
Finland is easy to live in. If your requirements are not dying of hunger and having an apartment, but if you think lifestyle should has joy, emotional and you should be able to have a chance at any sort of self-fulfillment, then don’t move here.
Interesting. I know very little about Finnish other than that the Uralic languages are _very_different from the Indo-European or Sinitic ones.
So how does that play out in Finish when it comes to gender identification?
Let’s say someone wants to transition. Does anything change linguistically? Are there other social queues people would use to indicate that they acknowledge/support the transition? Or is it more of a, “You do you because we don’t have the grammar to have a conversation about it?”
Their name, and that’s it. edit like aside from some one directly addressing you with a title like miss or mister, we do have those. Or going “what’s up guys” but that’s sort of as neutral as it in English, as in technically refers to males but can be used to refer to a group of mixed genders. But aside from using a noun that means a female, then no. No word conjugate differently, we have no articles, nothing.
Acknowledge? Sure. In a positive way? I doubt it.
Idk how it is in the capital area, which is arguably at least a tad more progressive, but people where I live (which is likely a bit more than an hour by train from Helsinki), people are still very casually racist, homophobic, transphobic, etc.
I genuinely socially isolated because I have principles and for example I was getting to know this news group people, not bad, were had fun meetings and activities. One time though, after an activity the group split into basically some of the men and most women and a few guys went home.
After talking for some time, I had heard, amongst other things, how homelessness is a choice, and how “transgenderism is brainwashing the youth”, “I can always spot them” (there really aren’t many trans people in my city dude was basically deluding himself into thinking every third rough looking girl he met had a penis) and then from a guy I thought more reasonable I heard “they could’ve been normal”.
That’s when I walked away.
Finland definitely isn’t the happiest country in the world that’s a huge myth. You can’t even transition without getting sterilised. (Although I haven’t checked on that for a year or two.) “Gender” and “sex” is conflated by many in English, but at least English has two different words. Try explaining the difference between “gender” and “sex” to some ill-read, inbred Finnish transphobe when both of those words translate as “sukupuoli”.
Finland is easy to live in. If your requirements are not dying of hunger and having an apartment, but if you think lifestyle should has joy, emotional and you should be able to have a chance at any sort of self-fulfillment, then don’t move here.