Depends on the person but a lot of trans people consider it offensive. Transgender is more of a blanket term and transsexual usually relates to surgical changes. For instance I’m transgender because of my internal feelings and desire for specific social interactions but I also consider myself transsexual because of the surgeries I’ve had (but 99% of the time will just say I’m transgender because it’s a lot easier than going into all this). Transsexual was used as a blanket term in a way that doesn’t vibe with a lot of trans people and was/is used as a slur, and more recently it has found a place with truscum/transmedicalist types furthering it’s problematic nature
Ohh ok. I mean, I was looking at the root word as gender the social construct and sex (typically XX, XY). I thought the idea is if a trans person could choose to change sexes, they would (science, magic wand, whatever to go XX to XY or XY to XX).
It’s not offensive, it’s just medically inaccurate. We’re not changing our sex, we’re changing our gender.
I suppose it could be offensive in that it misrepresents trans people’s understanding of what hormones do, but it’s really not a huge deal if I’m being honest. It does also have an air of old-timey gender politics, though, which does always come with a foul taste…
Woah, help a friend out.
I think they are saying they prefer transgender?
I haven’t heard anything about that word being offensive tho.
Depends on the person but a lot of trans people consider it offensive. Transgender is more of a blanket term and transsexual usually relates to surgical changes. For instance I’m transgender because of my internal feelings and desire for specific social interactions but I also consider myself transsexual because of the surgeries I’ve had (but 99% of the time will just say I’m transgender because it’s a lot easier than going into all this). Transsexual was used as a blanket term in a way that doesn’t vibe with a lot of trans people and was/is used as a slur, and more recently it has found a place with truscum/transmedicalist types furthering it’s problematic nature
Ohh ok. I mean, I was looking at the root word as gender the social construct and sex (typically XX, XY). I thought the idea is if a trans person could choose to change sexes, they would (science, magic wand, whatever to go XX to XY or XY to XX).
It’s not offensive, it’s just medically inaccurate. We’re not changing our sex, we’re changing our gender.
I suppose it could be offensive in that it misrepresents trans people’s understanding of what hormones do, but it’s really not a huge deal if I’m being honest. It does also have an air of old-timey gender politics, though, which does always come with a foul taste…
This also may not be a native English speaker.
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