List of gender unjust terms issued by SC
New Delhi, Aug 17: The Supreme Court on Wednesday launched a handbook on stereotype gender unjust terms and suggested alternative words and phrases for use in the judicial discourse and in orders and judgments.
Following is the list of terms:
*Adulteress: Woman who has engaged in sexual relations outside of marriage.
*Affair: Relationship outside of marriage
*Bastard: Non-marital child or a child whose parents were not married
*Biological sex/biological male/biological female: Sex assigned at birth
*Born a girl/boy: Assigned female/male at birth
*Career woman: Woman
*Carnal intercourse: Sexual intercourse
*Chaste woman: Woman
*Child prostitute: Child who has been trafficked
*Concubine/keep: Woman with whom a man has had romantic or sexual relations outside of marriage
*Dutiful wife/faithful wife/good wife/obedient wife: Wife
*Easy virtue (e.g. a woman of easy virtue): Woman
*Effeminate (when used pejoratively): Accurately describe the characteristic using a gender neutral term (e.g. confident or responsible)
*Eve teasing: Street sexual harassment
*Faggot: Accurately describe the individual's sexual orientation (e.g. homosexual or bisexual)
*Fallen woman: Woman
*Feminine hygiene products: Menstrual products
*Forcible rape: Rape
*Harlot: Woman
*Hermaphrodite: Intersex
*Hooker: Sex worker
*Hormonal (to describe a woman's emotional state): Use a gender neutral term to describe the emotion (e.g. compassionate or enthusiastic)
*Housewife: Homemaker
*Indian woman/western woman: Woman
*Ladylike: Use a gender neutral description of behaviour or characteristics (e.g. amusing or assertive)
*Layabout/Shirker: Unemployed
*Marriageable age: A woman who has attained the legal age required to marry
*Mistress: Woman with whom a man has had romantic or sexual relations outside of marriage
*Prostitute: Sex worker
*Provider/Breadwinner: Employed or earning
*Provocative clothing/dress: Clothing/dress
*Ravished (e.g. she was "ravished" by him): Sexually harassed/assaulted or raped
*Seductress: Woman
*Sex change: Sex reassignment or gender transition
*Slut: Woman
*Spinster: Unmarried woman
*Survivor or victim: An individual who has been affected by sexual violence may identify themselves as either a "survivor" or "victim". Both terms are applicable unless the individual has expressed a preference, in which case the individual's preference should be respected.
*Transsexual: Transgender
*Transvestite: Cross-dresser
*Unwed Mother: Mother
*Violated (e.g. he violated her): Sexually harassed/assaulted or raped
*Whore: Woman
*Woman of loose moral/easy virtue/promiscuous woman/wanton woman: Woman
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Death toll from Israeli strikes in northeast Lebanon rises from 8 to 24, Lebanese news agency says
Deir al-Balah, Nov 1: Israeli airstrikes on Friday killed at least 24 people in northeastern Lebanon, the country's news agency said, raising the death toll from eight there.
It was the latest deadly toll in the area since the conflict between Israel and the Lebanese group Hezbollah escalated last month.
Israel's military has said that its operation in Lebanon is targeting Hezbollah's military infrastructure.
Lebanon's state National news Agency reported four airstrikes in different villages across country's northeast, saying rescuers were still searching for survivors in Younine, a town in the Bekaa Valley, from the rubble of a targeted house.
Hussein Haj Hassan, a Lebanese lawmaker representing the region in Baalbek-Hermel region, said that 60,000 people have already fled their homes in the area due to Israeli bombardment.
