Well, the work definitely shows! It’s very kind of you to share it with me. 
PM incoming!
“Domine” - Latin term for “master” (good for vampires?!)
I would like to point out that the ‘Domine’ is a plural form, when used to address an individual, it must be either ‘dominus’ for males or ‘domina’ for females.
EDIT:
I went through my Latin vocab and found myself wrong, ‘domine’ is actually the vocative singular form of ‘dominus’, and cannot be used to refer to mistresses.
Latin declensions must be getting rusty in my head. 
I’d have to double-check, but I think it’s fair to use under the rules of generative grammar. Suffixes us, a, e are associated with the nominative form of masculine, feminine, and neutral nouns. Changing gender was seen in nouns like a man named Julius having daughters named Julia. So in theory (if I’m correct about being able to swap around suffixes at will) you could turn any Latin noun or title gender-neutral.
@Sashira generally yes, although the usual nutral suffix is -um and there are many exceptions, for example ‘agricola’ is masculine, ‘manus’ is feminine and ‘corpus’ is neutral.
IIRC, in case of dominus/domina and Julius/Julia the third gender forms should be dominum and Julium.
I don’t know if this is the correct thread for this but it is the closest my search found; Here goes:
I just got done reading an article in Time today: Non-Binary Article and there is a passage in it which I need some help understanding.
If she is female and always was - why does she need to “own up to her male biology”?
I can understand being a mixture of both but she claims she never identified as male. Why should a person in her position have “to own up” to the birth biology in the first place? I feel like she is making it easier for those who reject transgenderism to further segregate and label transgendered as not “real” but something to seperate from and discriminate against.
Sometimes a person feels like something ought not to matter, but it just does. Their lived experience is a part of them, and they feel it would be dishonest to say it hasn’t shaped their identity. While she’s a female, she was raised and socialized as male, and has “male biology”, and to her, that’s important enough that she doesn’t feel comfortable disregarding it.
It’s up to the person how they feel about their lived experience, and how it affects their identity. As long as someone isn’t dictating how someone else has to feel, people are just trying to be honest about who they are in a complicated world.
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This is where I stumble with her rational.
By making such a declaration, that she must own up to her male biology, she is in essence saying that those that don’t “own up” are not being truthful - and thus she is dictating how all transgendered should be seen.
Edit - I am not saying you are wrong - I still don’t really get it. The transgendered friends I have have fought their entire life to be seen as and accepted fully as the gender they always were and not the gender they were assigned or as some “third alternative”. I feel (from knowing them both most of my life) that they would not want to be seen as some “third option” that makes them different than others of their gender.
Every transgender person is different, and has different experiences.
I would imagine that Jamie’s speaking just of their own personal feelings, and not speaking for all transgender people. I don’t think Jamie appears to be criticising other people who don’t feel the same way they do, just that this is how they, personally feel.
https://transgender.wiki/jamie-shupe/
Not all transgender people are the same. Some transgender people are binary, identifying as either male or female. Some people are non-binary. This should be every bit as valid.
Some people transition, and then discover that that still does not adequately fit, so they may then choose to identify as non-binary, instead of male or female. Likewise some people identify as non-binary and then end up transitioning to either male or female.
As I stated above, I understand the non-binary portion, and people who feel they are neither exclusively should be labeled as non-binary.
With that said, this person, even as I read that entire entry you linked always considered themselves as binary female.
This issue I keep tripping over is her statement that she must “own up” I can accept that she wishes to acknowledge her biology - as that is a personal thing in her own journey.
I can see others saying all transgendered must own up as she did - and discriminating and segregating based on the fact that they must own up.
While people may say that it wouldn’t be true. I don’t think you can take what one person says and then extrapolate it to refer to an entire community. That just isn’t fair. Jamie’s speaking for themselves, not for anyone else. I don’t think transgender people should watch what they say more carefully just because people might assume they’re speaking not just for themselves, but for everyone.
Without asking Jamie directly it’s hard to know exactly what is meant, but I’d say far better to just err on the side of assuming they’re only speaking of their own experiences.
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