U of T Magazine | Autumn 2016

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I Saw Him Standing There

What You Were Reading*

Update Your Vocabulary Regarding the cover feature “Generation T” (Summer 2016), please stop using the word “transgenderism” if you value your progressive reputation. The medical profession uses terms like “transgenderism” and “transsexualism” to pathologize trans people. Why not just write “the neuroscience of being trans”? It would be more humanizing.

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AMANDA PEET

DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS, U OF T

Surviving the Crash The Time Capsule story in the summer issue mentioned the dim prospects for new grads, especially women, following the market crash of 1929. In June 1930, my mom had completed her second year in household science at Victoria College. She was able to get summer employment in the dining room at Bigwin Inn on Lake of Bays, a favourite Ontario vacation spot for still-wealthy Americans.

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Drumming Up Support 152

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KEN KOEHLER

BComm 1963, MBA 1964, DORSET, ONTARIO

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