The term passed into Arabic (with the definite article "al" in front of the noun) and was introduced into Moorish Spain.
Mock's description of the dynamics of passing is precisely why we need to continue to use the term; "passing" isn't about one's intention as a trans person, but how one's acceptability is judged by others, and one need not seek out the privilege it affords to benefit from it.
The only subjects on which Coupland and I are in agreement are the horror of the "trash vortex" in the Pacific ocean, a swirling mound of plastics and other manmade mess twice the size of Texas, and his distaste for the term "passing" as a euphemism for death.
If you leave this blog post learning one new thing, it's the term passing privilege.
Transgender communities and medical professionals still use the term "passing" to assess how well transgender people are able to "pass" as the gender with which they identify.
Janet Mock, a trans woman, author, presenter, and one of the most exciting voices to emerge in feminism in recent years, objects to the term passing because, as she puts it, "I'm not passing, I'm being... I'm being myself".
At the start of the fall term, passes will be given to all New York City schools for distribution.
In the spring term, passing grades (A, B, C) appear on the transcript while non-passing grades are again not recorded.
You ask a good question, but here is what I would say: If Reagan was really such an abolitionist, why did the first term pass - when there were many opportunities before Gorbachev - to get agreement on a nuclear weapons treaty.
