A Year in a Word 2015

[Anthony Simon]

This is a series the FT (Financial Times, London) is running and one of the words chosen to sum up this year is Trans:

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/61b6bf08-a593 ... z3vc426Id1

For Trans:

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ac7a024a-a41a ... z3vWLPUfd7

[Kelly]

Looks like you have to be a subscriber to be able to read the second link, oh well....

Looking at the other candidates I would be surprised if the ultimate selection is anything other than isis.

Kelly.

[Anthony Simon]

The FT site can be a bit twitchy, even for subscribers. More than once they've told me I need a subscription when I already have one. In general, I think you get a certain number of articles free, but there are some restrictions. I don't know, maybe this was one of them.

It wasn't so much that it's a great and wonderful article. It's not. it's just a very short piece with stuff I'm sure most people here already know. It's that a "paper of record" (and one with something of an international readership) can be bothered with people like us enough to make us an archetype of a year - and not in a bad way.

It's uses Caitlyn Jenner's cover as the central event. But the FT doesn't like you copying it's articles - and you're not supposed to do that here anyway. So, that's as much as you're getting.