Transsexual
A thought from the first half of the Positive Space Workshop I attended this week at UBC:
Transsexual applies to people who think of themselves as fitting the gender binary. Aka I was born male/female, but I'm really the other one, and I am possibly taking steps so that people will recognize me as the gender that is not the one I was born with. (As a result, transgender, on top of being an umbrella term, becomes about people who have a more fluid conception of gender.)
It's not fact or truth, just a general working definition, since people are free to label themselves with the term that works best for them, obviously. But I'd never thought of it that way, and I think I like it. Thoughts?
Transsexual applies to people who think of themselves as fitting the gender binary. Aka I was born male/female, but I'm really the other one, and I am possibly taking steps so that people will recognize me as the gender that is not the one I was born with. (As a result, transgender, on top of being an umbrella term, becomes about people who have a more fluid conception of gender.)
It's not fact or truth, just a general working definition, since people are free to label themselves with the term that works best for them, obviously. But I'd never thought of it that way, and I think I like it. Thoughts?