We still face numerous communication challenges related to gender and sexual diversity, Markus Hoppe says. As a diversity trainer and co-founder of the Hamburg-based WELCOMING OUT initiative, which works toward enabling people to feel confident in coming out, he is more than familiar with repetitive, damaging narratives that are faced by the queer community time and again. In his guest post, he calls on everyone, and especially on the communications industry, to take a very close look at the battleground disputes, such as gender language, and the contentious arguments used there.
