TV or TS? don't people in the community know the difference?

[SarahG]

Foreign languages...

Its not just translation issues, the English language is constantly in a state of flux and usage of the words gender and sex has changed dramatically just within the last 30 or so years.

Not too long ago (e.g. 90s) gov and medical forms would give you a check box entitled SEX with two options to select from. It was common to ask pregnant women if they knew what SEX their baby was going to be. Etc.

But now, everyone is dropping the "sex" word except for in reference to the acts of sexual activity. Gov and medical forms ask instead for your gender now, and pregnant women have "gender reveal" celebrations. They're not talking about peoples' brains or where they fall on the feminine-masculine spectrum here, they're talking about genitalia.

"Sex" is becoming a vulgar word in the English language.

Consequently if you go talk to the youngest-trans women starting their transitions within the last couple of years they don't use the "transsexual" word at all and yell at you if you mention it. Instead they all try to go by "transgender" instead.

It probably doesn't help that trans women in particular are constantly dogged in society by these incorrect assumptions that we're all sexually deviant perverts, so part of this change is probably a futile attempt at ditching some of those connotations knowing that the uninformed public are going to assume being trans is a sexual fetish-thing since it has the word "sexual" in it.

Totally ignoring of course that the term "transgender" as it has existed throughout history has been an umbrella term that includes things like transvestites who share nothing in common with us other than being hated by some of the same people. 10+ years ago people insisted they were TS to show they had nothing to do with those TVs but now? They're using the TG label while pretending TVs don't exist.

[nysprod]

I do. I prefer somebody who looks, sounds, smells, and chemically acts like a woman. Hormones are what makes any genetic woman a woman at the fundamental level, and this is why in large part TS women act and are women.

Bullshit, I've met numerous cd/tv's who totally have the girl thing down sans hormones. Besides that, tg's frequently cycle on/off.

[holzz]

Bullshit, I've met numerous cd/tv's who totally have the girl thing down sans hormones. Besides that, tg's frequently cycle on/off.

A TV wouldn't take hormones and transition.