#and i have answered this before but you KNOW how the tungler.gov.co.edu's search engine works ('works')

[uncanny-tranny]

Could I ask what difference between transgender and transsexual is? I ask this as a trans person who wants to start using the term "transsexual," but I'm not sure if it denotes anything beyond what I've been using the term "transgender" for (i.e. not aligning with my birth sex/gender identity).

I like transsexual better as it's what our trans-cestors used, and it's a word that is so much "punchier" than transgender is, and I don't feel the same kind of "weird" when the label is applied to me. I'm just worried that these are "fake" reasons or something. Thank you, and sorry!

Honestly, I think there are more similarities between "transsexual" and "transgender" as transsexual as a term was introduced first, and then transgender replaced it

Transsexual has had a history of being used for people who were medically transitioning during a point where transness was heavily pathologized and medicalized... but I personally don't think that cis people should be allowed to sully words like that, and I really don't think that we need to stick by those ridged rules. Isn't the reason transness is so "scary" because we break those "ridged rules" so often? But I digress.

I think some people have different outlooks on their transition, and that's where the transsexual/transgender labels can help. For me, I identify as transsexual because I think it most accurately describes my relationship with my transition.

The most important thing is to not force people in or out of labels they identify with - which is why I want anybody who wants to ID as transsexual do so. So many people ID as such - trans elders, young trans people, people who are medically transitioning, people who aren't. I think a lot of why people are attracted to this word is because of political reclamation, as in reclaiming the word for political reasons, to show the word how viscerally human you are. That's part of the reason I decided to use it, at least.

#ask #anon #trans #transgender #transsexual #lgbt #lgbtq #ftm #mtf #nonbinary #there's this stereotype that people only ID as transsexual in order to distance themself from transgender people... #...and it's like... i have seen that a couple of times *and* they don't grasp what trans liberation will mean #because trans liberation that leaves behind a single trans person will be doomed to fall apart #and separating yourself because.... just because will only hurt you in the end #i am not accusing anon of anything. if anything i think their intentions are pure and they most likely just want a label they *like* #i claimed transsexual for myself because i have a different view of my transition and the way i think it plays into my life ect ect #and i have answered this before but you KNOW how the tungler.gov.co.edu's search engine works ('works') #and i know that you can get tools to fix the search but: 1. not everybody has it 2. it is on staff to fix search not us #i for one am usually on mobile and on the app so i have to contend with the awful clunkiness 🫠😭