Gender dilemma for locomotive owners and museums after signs vandalised
Jul 30, 2019
2 minutes
By Hugh Dougherty
ROBIN JONES
THE Scottish Maritime Museum (SMM), which includes displays on railway-owned steamers, has decreed that ships, locomotives and other pieces of machinery will now be referred to in gender-neutral language. The words ‘she’and‘her’have now been officially dropped from displays, print and online material.
Director David Mann took the decision after the term ‘she’ was scratched off
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